Fire - burning in Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara grows to 1,200 acres........

A 15-mile stretch of Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County that close down overnight for a quick moving wildfire was revived Thursday morning, Caltrans authorities said. The interstate between El Capitan State Beach and Gaviota revived just before 7:30 a.m., Caltrans representative Jim Shivers said. Yet, firefighters in the mountains along the thruway kept on battling a burst that started around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday close Refugio Road. The flame blasted overnight and developed to 1,200 sections of land in only a couple of hours, powers said Thursday. The Sherpa fire provoked the clearing of Refugio, Venadito and Las Flores ravines north of Santa Barbara. Winds had subsided after dusk, moderating the flame, yet then all of a sudden picked up quality, sending lines of flares winding down The flame's size blasted from 250 sections of land to more than 1,200 overnight, Santa Barbara County authorities said. The flame is blazing in steep, chaparral-shrouded territory in Los Padres National Forest. "A ton of that territory is extremely perilous to place teams into, so it will be moderate going," Santa Barbara County fire Capt. Dave Zaniboni told KNBC.the mountainsides.