Countywide : 200 Help Put Out Fire in State Park
Firefighters on Tuesday extinguished a 500-acre grass fire sparked in Chino Hills State Park by a damaged power line.
Crews on Tuesday walked through the blackened area and doused smoldering grass and brush, said Capt. Tom Andreas of the California Department of Forestry.
Fire officials said the blaze, reported shortly before 2 p.m. Monday by a person riding a horse in the area, began near the park ranger station and spread east. Flames burned within several hundred feet of a housing development outside of the park, but were beaten back by firefighters on the ground and in helicopters.
Erratic 15 m.p.h. winds whipped up the flames during the first few hours, Andreas said, hindering ground crews who were trying to contain the blaze.
As many as 200 firefighters from the state, Chino, and Riverside and Orange counties battled the blaze. Firefighters had the fire surrounded Tuesday morning and extinguished it by about 8 a.m., Andreas said.
There were no injuries reported and no structures burned, Andreas said.
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