Scene in Running Springs

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The air was thick with smoke and ash at the Running Springs fire
station, where strike teams from all over California gathered to fight
the Slide fire, which encircled the community of Green Valley Lake and
the northwest region of Running Springs down to Fredalba.

U.S. Forest Service Battalion Chief Steve R. Seltzner, who had been on duty for
more than 30 hours by this morning, said the fire was continuing to
burn west, southwest and south toward Highland and
San Bernardino.

To the dismay of firefighters, the blaze jumped to the
south side of Highway 330 – increasing the risk to communities
to the south.

“It’s four to five miles north of Highland, but with the wind
conditions and rapid rate of spread, it can travel that distance in a
matter of an hour or less,” Seltzner said just before 10 a.m. today.

-- Maeve Reston in Running Springs