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Santa Barbara's 'Jesusita' Fire (not pictured)has covered at least 150 acres.
A wind-whipped wildfire is bearing down on a neighborhood in Santa Barbara, a California coastal city of 90,000 people that is still healing from a blaze that destroyed 200 homes in November.
Named the Jesusita Fire, the blaze is threatening power lines in the rugged terrain of the San Roque Canyon, and mandatory evacuations are already in effect.
The fire broke out around 2 p.m., and by 5 p.m. had burned 150 acres, according to Noozhawk, a news Web site in Santa Barbara.
Helicopters Tuesday afternoon were dropping water on the fire, evoking eerie memories of November's Tea Fire, which was contained just two miles away from where the current blaze is burning.
Temperatures were in the mid-80s, and Tuesday's forecast called for high sundowner winds of between 40 and 50 mph.