Early morning fire shuts down SLO County road

Price Canyon Road and the Union Pacific Railroad were shut down for two hours Tuesday morning as firefighters attacked a spot fire in a difficult-to-access location.

It was along Pismo Creek where an encampment was located at the bottom of the canyon.

Cal Fire assigned several units to the call east of Thousand Hills Road at 5:34 a.m., according to emergency response app PulsePoint.

Access from the road was via a railroad bridge, leading to both being shut down to allow firefighters to battle the fire.

Containment of the fire to a few hundred square feet was called on the scanner an hour later, and after two hours units were released and the road opened.

Cal Fire, CHP, Pismo Beach Police Department and the county department all responded to the call.

David Middlecamp

The Tribune

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David Middlecamp is a photojournalist and third-generation Cal Poly graduate who has covered the Central Coast region since the 1980s. A career that began developing and printing black-and-white film now includes an FAA-certified drone pilot license. He also writes the history column “Photos from the Vault.”