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Firefighters battling a growing wildfire near the Southern California coast got a small reprieve Friday night but were bracing for rising temperatures as an extreme heatwave threatened to roast the Southwest with triple-digit temperatures this weekend, NBC News reports.
The so-called Sherpa Fire — one of several active wildfires burning in 10 states on Saturday — more than tripled in size Friday in Santa Barbara County, and by Saturday afternoon and had scorched more than 7,811 acres, officials said.
There was some good news: The blaze was 45 percent contained as of Saturday afternoon, up from 24 percent earlier in the day.
And U.S. 101, the state's major coastal highway, in the Santa Barbara area which officials shuttered for two nights in a row, was reopened Saturday morning.
