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Nov 14, 2008 1:27 pm US/Pacific

Bay Area Firefighters Rush To SoCal Wildfire

MONTECITO, Santa Barbara County (BCN) ― Several Bay Area fire departments have sent strike teams Friday to help battle a blaze that has burned more than 100 homes since Thursday in a popular celebrity getaway southeast of Santa Barbara.

By about 10 a.m., some 500 firefighters from across California were helping with the Tea Fire in Santa Barbara County. It has burned about 2,500 acres near the community of Montecito and has injured at least 10 people since about 5:50 p.m. on Thursday, according to the Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Services. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in the county Friday morning.

Several agencies in the Bay Area, such as Cal Fire and the San Jose, Salinas, San Francisco and South San Francisco fire departments, have sent strike teams to help with the flames.

South San Francisco firefighters deployed engines that will specifically try to prevent threatened structures from burning. As of about 10 a.m., about 5,450 homes were threatened.

An administrative assistant at the South San Francisco Fire Department said their local Station 61 deployed firefighters at about 5 a.m.

Local residents were being asked to take extreme precaution in the unusually dry weather, even though there is not a fire weather advisory.

The Santa Barbara County Chapter of the American Red Cross has an emergency shelter at San Marcos High School, 4759 Hollister Ave., in Santa Barbara. Anyone seeking information about it can call (805) 687-1331.

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