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[Update: Fri., April 3, 2026, 4:14 p.m.] As of 4 p.m. Friday, April 3, ahead progress has been stopped on the Plato Fire, in accordance with an replace posted on the WatchDuty app. Incident Command estimates that the hearth reached a measurement of about 22.8 acres.
[Original Story] A fireplace is at present burning close to a Vandenberg house launch complicated. The hearth is about 13 miles from Lompoc.
At 1:24 p.m., a reporter on WatchDuty, an internet site that tracks wildfires, uploaded video footage and a publish that stated firefighters had been on-scene of a 2-acre hearth. The footage got here from AlertCalifornia, a UC San Diego–based mostly web site that screens wildfires within the state.
Vandenberg stated that the hearth division on-base is working to get a boundary estimate for the hearth and comprise it, and has reached out for mutual support. Santa Barbara County’s Fire Department stated that they had firefighters aiding on-scene.
It is unclear the present measurement of the hearth; Vandenberg doesn’t but have an estimate, however at 2:13 p.m., a WatchDuty publish stated the hearth had unfold to 10 acres and was at 0 p.c containment.
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