A brush fire that broke out Thursday along the dry Santa Ana River bottom in Jurupa Valley charred roughly two acres before it was stopped.
The non-injury blaze was reported at 2:05 p.m. Thursday in the area of Fleetwood Drive and Via Ricardo, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
The agency said that multiple engine crews were sent to the location and encountered flames moving at a slow rate through heavy brush.
Shortly after 3 p.m., firefighters stopped the brusher’s forward rate of spread, and by 3:45 p.m., they had fully encircled it, officials said.
No homes or other structures were threatened.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. The river bottom is populated with homeless encampments, and cooking, warming and debris fires are common year-round.