California IN BRIEF : WRIGHTWOOD : Brush Fire Stopped Short of Ski Resort

Firefighters on Sunday contained a 1,430-acre brush fire that burned to within a mile of a popular ski resort in the San Bernardino National Forest. About 850 firefighters from three agencies established fire lines around the blaze at 6 p.m. Sunday and expected full control by tonight. “The hot spots should be extinguished by Monday and there should be no danger of the fire escaping from the lines,” U.S. Forest Service spokesman Sam Tapper said. Officials said the fire started Wednesday with a campfire in the Stockton Flats campground in the upper Lytle Creek Canyon area. It has cost an estimated $1 million to fight, said Bill Cunningham, a dispatcher for the U.S. Forest Service.