Brush Fire Briefly Threatens Toll Road

Four to five acres were blackened by a brush fire Tuesday in Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, about five miles from where a 1993 fire destroyed 441 homes.

The fire, reported at 3:18 p.m., moved slowly uphill, coming within about half a mile of the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road before being contained about two hours later, authorities said. Cause of the fire was not immediately known. No homes or other buildings were threatened. An inmate working on a Forestry Department crew injured his foot with his fire ax, but he walked to a medic for treatment.