Highway 101 lane closed due to vegetation fire ’racing up the hill,’ CHP says

One lane of southbound Highway 101 was closed Sunday morning due to a vegetation fire.

Cal Fire and the California Highway Patrol responded to the fire that broke out along the highway.

The fire was reported around 9:23 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Laetitia Vineyard Drive and Los Berros Road in Arroyo Grande, according to the emergency response app PulsePoint.

Cal Fire tweeted at 9:38 a.m. that the fire was currently around a quarter acre and had the potential to grow to two acres.

“Use caution while driving in the area,” Cal Fire SLO said in the tweet.

The right lane of southbound Highway 101 was closed as of 11 a.m., according to Caltrans. The left lane was still open.

CHP dispatch logs said that there was a “lot of brush burning away from (the) freeway” and the fire was “racing up the hill.”

This story was originally published May 22, 2022 at 10:39 AM.