California Condor. Eben Inchillian. 11 September 1964 rushed to the sespe valley to a heliport on the sespe condor sanctuary corridor road on sunday afternoon, the fire in condor sanctuary came evening the fire broke out. At 8:00 A.M. the following morning he was landed inside the fire area by helicopter. a total of 100 plus men were already in and fighting this fire. 600 men were on the fire line before it was brought under control by Tuesday evening. All men and equipment were flown in by 6 helicopter. Several borate tanker planes dumped material on this fire. The fire, before controlled, burned 350 acres between Bear Heaven and the west fork of the Sespe River, all within the Sespe Wildlife area. when finally brought under control it had burned west to the border of the Condor refuge on ridge east of Santa Paula Canyon This evening—at Dusk, he stopped at the ceramic factory of Mr. & Mrs. [illegible] on Apache ridge between Apache saddle and Grocer Grade Highway. They have just returned from being in Bakersfield. Returning home about 6:15 P.M., they mentioned seeing an adult Condor that passed low over their cut on the ridge north of the head of Ballenger Canyon,