BIG BEAR FIRE BURNS STRUCTURES.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A wildfire roared across 1,000 acres Saturday, burning 11 structures, prompting evacuations and shutting down a main route into the Big Bear Lake-Lake Arrowhead arrowhead, any plant of the genus Sagittaria, widely distributed marsh or aquatic herbs of the primitive family Alismataceae (water-plantain family). The name derives from the arrowhead-shaped leaves of many species. resort areas. It wasn't clear whether the burned structures were homes, but they probably were, said Ruth Wenstrom, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman. ``I presume they're homes,'' she said. She knew of no injuries. Hundreds of homes in Fredalba, Live Oak and Smiley See emoticon. smiley - emoticon Park, south of Running Springs, were evacuated. At 8:45 p.m. homes in the Running Springs communities were still threatened, Wenstrom said. There was no estimated containment time. Air tankers trying to drop fire retardant fire retardant Public health A chemical used to resist combustion, which may contain polybrominated biphenyls and antimony oxide were hampered by heavy smoke, said Forest Service spokesman Pat Boss. Highway 330, which winds north into the mountains from the San Bernardino San Bernardino, city, United States San Bernardino (săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. area, was closed in both directions. The blaze broke out about 1:30 p.m. The cause was not determined. A recent Forest Service effort in the Running Springs area to clear brush from homeowners' properties probably averted worse damage, Wenstrom said. |
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