Wildfires in Three Counties Are Contained
Firefighters on Tuesday encircled the last of three wildfires that charred nearly 19,000 acres in San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties.
The San Bernardino fire, which started at 1 p.m. Sunday, burned 4,035 acres near Cajon Pass. The blaze was fully contained at dawn Tuesday, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Karen McKinley.
Flames blackened houses, burned cars and sheds, destroyed two mobile homes and killed livestock. One home was destroyed by flames.
The Santa Barbara fire, skirting the Los Padres National Forest west of New Cuyama, was the longest and largest of the three. It raged for nine days and burned 14,537 acres before firefighters encircled it Monday evening, said Charlie Johnson, spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The Ventura County blaze broke out just before 2:30 p.m. Monday on a rocky mountainside near the Santa Susana Pass in Simi Valley.
The 240-acre blaze was contained at dawn Tuesday, Ventura County fire spokeswoman Rhonda Kauer said.
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