On a hot July afternoon, we Clevelanders gaped at grain elevators, gleaming railroad tracks, sprawling ranches, cattle, rusting towns in windblown rural Nebraska.

A large brush fire continues to grow off Highway 166 east of Santa Maria and near Cuyama prompting numerous evacuations.

Original story: A Level 3 "Go Now" evacuation alert was issued for residents living along Roberts Ranch Road and Dunning Road ...