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Yahoo!Despite the recent cancellation of Santa Barbara City College classes due to the fire, Westmont College’s baccalaureate will still take place there at 5 p.m. today, and commencement ceremonies are still on for tomorrow morning, both events to take place La Playa Stadium.
Reality Carpinteria, a church located at 5251 6th Street in Carp, has offered its space as a temporary shelter for students without another place to go, said Westmont spokesperson Scott Craig. The campus is under mandatory evacuation. Although staff and faculty were not allowed onto campus this morning, those already there are helping students and their families get off campus by the noon deadline.
The Las Barrancas neighborhood, where many Westmont faculty and staff live, and which lost 14 homes in November’s Tea Fire, is also under mandatory evacuation. So far, no homes have been lost to the Jesusita Fire in that neighborhood.
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The evacuation warning area is expanded (west end) to include the area of De La Vina and Vernon, south on Vernon to Stanley, west on Stanley to Las Positas, south on Las Positas to US 101, west on US 101 to State Street/Hwy 154.
The evacuation warning area is also expanded (east end) to include the area of Milpas south to US 101, US 101 to San Ysidro Road, San Ysidro north to Camino Cielo.
CGerlach (anonymous profile)
May 8, 2009 at 12:24 p.m. (Suggest removal)
My parents in mid-Alston Road on Eucalyptus Hill just got a reverse 911 Evacuation Warning call.
Though they say the fire does not appear to have advanced in that direction, I suppose the fire authorities are warning it could do anything with the winds as it descends in that direction.
Native1 (anonymous profile)
May 8, 2009 at 12:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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