Helen Tarbet, an information officer with the Los Padres National Forest, shows the location of Pine Mountain Club with her right hand and the location of the fire with her left. As the crow flies, the fire was about 16 miles southwest of the Mountain Communities [update: by Monday, July 4 it was 13 miles from Pine Mountain Club]. The topography in the Sespe Wilderness Area is rugged and steep. The real distance is greater, but the fire is not contained. The spread of the fire is toward the northeast. [Patric Hedlund photo for The Mountain Enterprise].