Southern California forest fire grows to 1,000 acres
A forest fire that forced the evacuation of several Southern California campgrounds has grown to 1,000 acres.
U.S. Forest Service spokesman Lee Beyer said early Thursday that crews are using water-dropping aircraft to attack the blaze in a remote location of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Flames are churning through 30-foot-high trees, sending up a huge plume of smoke. The fire in the Barton Flats area is just five percent contained.
Nearly 200 campers, most of them children, were evacuated from several wilderness sites after the fire was reported Wednesday some 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, crews have slowed the spread of a wildfire on the Barona Indian Reservation in northern San Diego County that prompted evacuations of seven homes. That fire is 10 percent contained.
