PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Wildfires that prompted the evacuation of homes and campgrounds remained out of control Tuesday morning after burning 7,000 acres of Southern California brush and forest land.
No homes were destroyed, authorities said.
The cause of both fires remained under investigation.
Three firefighters suffered heat exhaustion Monday as they battled a 5,000-acre blaze on the edge of the San Bernardino National forest west of Palm Springs. Two campgrounds were evacuated as about 1,000 firefighters, backed by helicopters and planes, worked to contain the fire that began Sunday afternoon.
The blaze was 25 percent contained late Monday night. Temperatures in the Riverside County area were expected to top 100 degrees there Tuesday.
In northern Los Angeles County, a 2,100-acre fire in the Lake Hughes area of the Angeles National Forest prompted the voluntary evacuation of a dozen homes.
The fire was 20 percent contained late Monday night.
The blaze started about 12:30 p.m. Monday and quickly spread in the heavy brush, fanned by winds that gusted around 20 mph, Los Angeles County fire Inspector John Mancha said.
The fire had moved into thick forest that hasn't burned in 75 years, county Fire Department spokesman Mike McCormick said.
In Los Angeles, 90 Boy Scouts were evacuated from a camp in Griffith Park after a late afternoon blaze erupted. It burned only four acres before it was contained in a little over an hour.
