A brush fire that broke out Wednesday in Sage scorched roughly an acre before it was stopped by Cal Fire aircraft.
The non-injury blaze was reported just after 1 p.m. in the 42600 block of Red Hawk Road, near Minto Way, about two miles west of the boundary marking the perimeter of the San Bernardino National Forest, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
The agency said three Cal Fire air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter were first to arrive over the location and initiated a series of runs that brought the fire’s forward rate of spread to a halt by 1:30 p.m.
A barn was briefly in the path of the brusher, but the flames never reached it.
Multiple engine and hand crews began tying up the tentative containment lines at 1:35 p.m., and they were expected to have full containment by 3 p.m.
There was no immediate word regarding how the fire started.