Palm Desert wildfire fully contained

A four-acre wildfire that started in a Palm Desert-area canyon was 100 percent contained or surrounded Wednesday, a U.S. ForestService spokesman said.

“We’ve pretty much got it,” Forest Service spokesman Lee Beyer saidshortly before 5 p.m.

Firefighters will check the burn area over the next few days and expectto declare it fully controlled by Friday.

A Forest Service employee reported the fire about two miles west ofHighway 74 in the Cat Creek drainage area in the Santa Rosa and San JacintoMountains National Monument about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday, according to John Millerof the Forest Service.

Crews from the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service andRiverside County Fire Department were sent to the scene. Four crews were sentto the fire today, Beyer said.

Beyer said the fire was burning at the bottom of a canyon, more than amile from structures. He said one helicopter made water drops and anothertransported firefighters to the blaze.

How the fire started has not been determined.