• The Canyon Fire burns on Vandenberg Air Force Base Sunday. (Ryan Cullom / Noozhawk photo)
  • (Ryan Cullom / Noozhawk photo)
  • (Ryan Cullom / Noozhawk photo)
  • (Ryan Cullom / Noozhawk photo)
  • A CalFire S-2T makes a Phos-Chek drop on the Canyon Fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base on Sunday afternoon. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo)
    A CalFire S-2T makes a Phos-Chek drop on the Canyon Fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base on Sunday afternoon. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo)
  • The Canyon Fire burns beyond Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex-3, which has an Atlas V rocket buttoned up inside. The rocket’s Sunday launch was postponed because of the wildfire. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo)
  • With Space Launch Complex-3 and the Pacific Ocean in the background, the Canyon Fire burns Sunday afternoon on Vandenberg Air Force Base. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo)
  • Smoke from the Canyon Fire rises in the distance from a Lompoc flower field. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • Smoke billows up behind Hillside Ranch near Lompoc on Sunday afternoon. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo)
  • The sun sets Sunday evening behind the smoke from the Canyon Fire, in a view from north of Buellton. (Dave Clark photo)
  • The Canyon Fire burning at Vandenberg Air Force Base creates a heavy smoke cloud over the base’s Space Launch Complex-3 where an Atlas V rocket is waiting to be launched. (U.S. Air Force photo)
  • Smoke from the Canyon Fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base rises in the distance in an aerial photo taken over Lompoc on Sunday morning. (Urban Hikers / Noozhawk photo)
  • Golfers at Village Country Club in Vandenberg Village had an impressive view of the smoke from the Canyon Fire on Sunday. (Diego Topete / Noozhawk photo)
  • The view to the southwest from Village Country Club in Vandenberg Village. (Diego Topete / Noozhawk photo)
  • Spectators in Vandenberg Village watch smoke rise on the horizon from a brush fire burning Saturday evening on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The blaze is burning on VAFB’s South Base area. (Nora Wallace photo)
    Spectators in Vandenberg Village watch smoke rise on the horizon from a brush fire burning Saturday evening on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The blaze is burning on VAFB’s South Base area. (Nora Wallace photo)
  • The Canyon Fire is burning on Vandenberg Air Force Base southwest of Lompoc. Officials say no facilities or infrastucture have been damaged. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo)
  • Crews from the Santa Barbara County Fire Department are among the personnel battling the Canyon Fire on Vandenberg Air Force Base. (Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo)
Bill Macfadyen

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Bill Macfadyen is Noozhawk’s founder and publisher. Contact him at wmacfadyen@noozhawk.com, and follow him on Instagram: @bill.macfadyen. The opinions expressed are his own.