PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) -- A 1,200-acre wildfire in northern Los Angeles County was contained Wednesday but a handful of others -- including one sparked by illegal fireworks -- continued to burn in rugged areas from San Diego County to the San Bernardino National Forest.
No building damage or injuries were reported but one fire forced 1,200 children to flee summer camps in the San Bernardino National Forest.
The 1,200-acre, wind-whipped blaze that erupted Tuesday in the desert town of Palmdale was contained shortly before 11 a.m., Los Angeles County fire officials said.
Some homes initially were threatened by the fire but no buildings burned and no injuries were reported from the blaze 60 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
''Luckily, the homeowners did outstanding brush clearing and no homes were lost,'' county fire spokesman Mike McCormick told KABC-TV as dawn approached. ''As soon as that sun comes up, we're going to get increased fire activity.''
The cause of the fire was still under investigation, but McCormick said it seemed to have started near some power lines.
Meanwhile, an Orange County blaze that spread over 900 acres of grassland in Chino Hills State Park was 25 percent contained.
Morning fog made for cooler, damper conditions but firefighters were looking at 90-degree temperatures later in the day, said Doug Lannon, a battalion chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
No homes were immediately threatened.
''The fire right now is in a relatively unpopulated area,'' but if it continues to move the communities of Sleepy Hollow and Carbon Canyon could be at risk, Lannon said.
More than two dozen horses, a dozen cows and a llama were moved from a stable in nearby Chino Hills by worried owners as flames, ash and smoke became visible.
Illegal firecrackers or bottle rockets caused the fire Tuesday, investigators determined. Investigators were seeking three boys who were seen leaving the area around the time the fire started.
''They want to talk to those three kids. They're not calling them suspects,'' Lannon said.
In the San Bernardino National Forest, hundreds of children remained unable to return to campgrounds they had to flee Tuesday.
A 100-acre fire in the region was 40 percent contained.
At the evacuation center at Yucaipa High School, officials struggled to house hundreds of children, some of whom were at first dressed only in swim suits and towels. Some 600 children were expected to spend Wednesday night in the gymnasium or on the football field because their parents lived too far away to pick them up immediately.
''I thought I was good with 400 burritos, but I'm told we should triple that,'' local Red Cross chapter official Chris Baker said Tuesday.
Jose Jimenez, 10, was taking a shower when he was ordered to leave.
''We thought it was a joke,'' he said. ''When we realized it was real, we had to get our clothes on.''
In San Diego County, a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in the northern part of the county in the Palomar Mountain area and burned 70 acres, said Matt Streck, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry.
Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading into Palomar Mountain State Park, which has a large amount of deed trees killed by bark beetle infestation, Streck said.
