Firefighters make progress on South fire burning in Lytle Creek; containment at 10%

The South occurrence burning successful Lytle Creek grew to 900 acres overnight but for the archetypal clip Friday, Aug. 27, occurrence officials accidental they person been capable to physique a information of a containment.

The occurrence was 10% contained, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.

The fire’s harm had been reported astatine 680 acres Thursday night.

“It’s beauteous calm this morning,” said Lisa Cox, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino National Forest. “There’s been nary guardant dispersed since (reaching 900 acres) past night.”

The country of astir interest Friday is on the ridge enactment wherever the occurrence made a tally Thursday successful writer and chaparral and wherever and the slope heats up successful the afternoon. That ridge enactment is simply a corridor to the assemblage of Lytle Creek, wherever galore of the area’s 1,000 residents live. The flames are a fewer miles away, Cox said.

The flames are burning into what is mostly national land, with fashionable camping spots, Cox said, truthful a wood bid has been issued that restricts entree to that area.

Friday’s extremity is to beef up the containment lines, said Battalion Chief Mike McClintock, a San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman. High temperatures were expected to support humidity low, astatine 10% to 15%. The National Weather Service forecasted winds from the northbound for Friday.

All evacuations stay successful spot Friday. The San Bernardino National Forest urged motorists not to thrust astir roadworthy closures.

“Road closed signs and postulation cones are not a suggestion,” a connection said.

Some 400 firefighters are connected the lines.

A water-dropping chopper attacked the flames overnight arsenic crews connected the crushed built containment lines.

Earlier Thursday, winds from the southbound caused spot fires to dispersed northbound connected Penstock Ridge, putting up a ample plume of smoke. Aircraft attacked those spot fires but were constricted by the beingness of powerfulness lines, occurrence managers said.

Eighteen structures, including respective homes, person been destroyed.

Orders for evacuations are successful spot for residents from Lytle Creek Road northbound and southbound of the ranger station, westbound of Sierra Avenue, northbound of the 15 Freeway and eastbound of Duncan Canyon Road. That covers 1,000 residents and 600 homes.

Warnings that residents should beryllium prepared to permission are successful spot for those surviving northbound of Glen Helen Parkway, eastbound of Sierra Avenue and Lytle Creek Road, and westbound of the 15.