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Update: Cal Fire has corrected the size of this fire to 46 acres based on more accurate mapping. Evacuated residents have been allowed to return home.
East County Wildfire & Emergency Alert Service
June 25, 2017 2:15 p.m. (Mesa Grande) – A brush fire burning in Cleveland National Forest has scorched 75 acres and is now threatening two homes, Cal Fire reports. The blaze began on Black Canyon Road near the Mesa Grande Reservation, about a mile north of Lake Sutherland in Ramona.
The fire is burning at a moderate rate of spread and is zero percent contained. Cal Fire is battling the blaze along with U.S. Forest Service firefighters. #BlackFire.
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