These photos were grabbed from amazing live video from ABC7 news (available HERE, occasionally) of the Lockheed fire near Santa Cruz, California, south of San Francisco.
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The fire started on Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. and has burned about 2,800 acres near Bonny Doon. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for 500-1,000 structures.
The fire gets its name from the nearby Lockheed Martin Space Systems campus, which is being used as a command post.
The local paper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, has good reporting. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_13065064