2nd wildfire breaks out on California military base
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Another wildfire, likely sparked by a downed powerline, broke out Wednesday and forced the evacuation of buildings on a large central California military base where another blaze has been burning all week, officials said.
The new fire broke out at 2 p.m. on the north side of the coastal, mostly undeveloped Vandenberg Air Force Base is unrelated to the older, larger fire that’s on the south side, base officials said.
The new blaze, which had grown to at least 100 acres, brought the evacuation of administrative buildings, but was not yet a threat to any of the housing or key facilities on the base.
Southward winds sent smoke over Lompoc, a city of 40,000 people at the edge of the base, though the flames themselves were not threatening the city.
