Desert Fire Halted After Residents Flee
Flames scorched 1,335 acres of brush and chased residents from homes in the Painted Hills area Sunday before firefighters surrounded the blaze and declared the homes out of danger.
Nearly 10,000 acres were blackened during weekend wildfires in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
On the desert, 10 homes were evacuated when a fire that started about 11 p.m. Saturday moved toward residences 110 miles east of Los Angeles, said Shelly Knight of the state Department of Forestry.
“There’s no danger now,” Knight said shortly after the blaze was contained at noon Sunday.
No structures were burned, but three firefighters suffered minor injuries, Knight said.
In neighboring San Bernardino County, firefighters Sunday surrounded a 3,500-acre blaze sparked when a lawn mower struck a rock, fire Capt. Frank Kawasaki said.
In Corona on Saturday, the 4,600-acre Dawson Canyon wildfire was extinguished with no structures damaged.
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