Firefighters headed into their sixth day battling the Gap fire in Santa Barbara County, with a lull in winds presenting an opportunity to contain key areas of the blaze before extreme temperatures and possible lightning storms arrive later this week.

"This is still a gorilla," the fire's new incident commander, Wally Bennett with the Northern Rockies management team, told firefighters at a 6 a.m. briefing today. "We have a lot of work to do on it, and a lot of bad country to work on it in. It's just one step at a time, and we're going to get this thing."