An early morning vegetation fire forced the evacuation of 80 homes and condos in the Pacifica area south of San Francisco Monday morning. It was reported at about 3:35 a.m. near Fassler Avenue at Highway 1 and was contained around 8 a.m., after which the evacuation was lifted. Pushed by a 15 mph wind, the fire burned about five acres in a heavily wooded area.
You arrive on a wild land fire at night, the sky is aglow. Rule of thumb (not haz mat) if you think the fire is ten acres divide that by half, then once again divide that by half. That is probably what you have. January here in California the second (Tanner 20 acres El Dorado N.F.) in four days. After copious amounts of water being spirited on this fire it probably shrank to 1.5 acres? Still a warning!
At least in San Francisco, they can draft out of the bay…