Fire teams quickly contain vegetation fire off Coyote Road in Montecito

MONTECITO, Calif. – Fire crews stopped a vegetation fire at 0.27 acres near the intersection of Coyote Road and W. Mountain Drive in Montecito.

According to the Montecito Fire Protection District, the fire currently has a moderate rate of spread in nearby vegetation, but the agency does not currently expect evacuations as part of the response.

Bill Keaton could see the flames and hear the fire trucks go up Coyote Road from his home in Montecito

"We could stand on the top of our bathtub down below and we could see the flames shooting up in 5 different places and then we saw the guys hiking up with their hoses," said Keaton," little by little inching up the hill to where the power poles are and then little by little they got all the fire out and now it is pretty much over."

He rode his bicycle uphill to take a closer look.

The images below, taken by Your News Channel at the scene, show the flames in the hillside north of Coyote Road.

This is an evolving fire response and more information will be added to this article as it becomes available.