2 Fighting Pinnacles Blaze Are Injured
Two firefighters battling the 2,500-acre Pinnacles fire in the San Bernardino National Forest were injured in a water tender rollover Wednesday. Both were taken to Loma Linda Medical Center, one with minor and the other with moderate injuries, officials said.
Cooler temperatures and higher humidity aided 220 firefighters who were trying to keep the blaze from spreading out of the San Bernardino Mountains into faster-burning grass and brush south of Apple Valley and Hesperia.
By building a containment line on the fire’s northern flank using a Mojave River tributary as a natural barrier, firefighters hoped to slow the fire.
Full containment is expected by 6 p.m. Saturday.
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