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Gifford Fire brings smoke to Morongo Basin over the weekend
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2025-08-04 14:59:56
Description:

If you’re seeing smoke in the sky here in the Morongo Basin, it’s coming from a wildfire currently burning north of Santa Barbara.

The Gifford Fire is currently burning across 65,000 acres in the San Luis Obispo Area. The fire began on August 1, and is currently at 3% containment as of August 4.

Winds carried smoke into the hi-desert over the weekend, resulting in gray skies and degraded air quality. The National Weather Service reports that southwesterly winds will continue to bring hazy-to-smoky conditions across portions of southeastern California and southern Nevada over the next few days.

Note: The Cal Fire page on the Gifford Fire is currently down, but we will keep the link here for when it returns online.
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