UPDATE (6:35 a.m.) - CAL FIRE reports the fire is now 75 percent contained after burning 12,703 acres.
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UPDATE (9:55 p.m.) - CAL FIRE reports the fire is now 20 percent contained.
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UPDATE (4:30 p.m.): According to Cal Fire SLO, due to better mapping, the Hurricane Fire is 12,678 acres in San Luis Obispo County.
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UPDATE (11:20 a.m.): Lightning sparked the Hurricane Fire that burned thousands of acres in the Carizzo Plain National Monument over the weekend, according to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
A BLM spokesperson tells KSBY News the fire, which broke out Saturday morning off Hurricane Road outside Santa Margarita, burned about 10,000 acres of BLM land before spreading into Kern County.
Kern County Fire crews are being assisted by CAL FIRE and BLM crews.
Saturday night, evacuations were ordered for an area of the county that borders San Luis Obispo County.
The fire is said to be wind-driven and burning in grass.
BLM estimated around 75-80 fire personnel were currently assigned to the fire, but that more would be needed.
The fire was estimated to have burned about 20,000 acres between the two counties as of Sunday morning.
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ORIGINAL SCRIPT 7/13:
A wildfire that broke out outside Santa Margarita and quickly spread toward Kern County Saturday has scorched 20,000 acres.
The fire was burning on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land but quickly grew, prompting evacuation orders Saturday night for an area of Kern County north of Mocal Road, south of Addie Avenue, East of Hurricane Road and west of Highway 33.
It was first reported Saturday morning in the area of Hurricane Road.
CAL FIRE is assisting the BLM with the firefight.
The fire was 10 percent contained as of Sunday morning, according to CAL FIRE.
The BLM has not released information related to the fire.
