Western wildfires: Blazes burn in 4 states amid hot weather
Two wildfires are burning outside Anchorage, one that tripled in size and forced the evacuation of campsites on the Kenai Peninsula and another in the heart of Alaska's dog mushing community that firefighters have kept from growing.
A smoky brush fire near a rural Arizona community was contained mainly to a dry riverbed, allowing most of the hundreds of evacuated residents to return home.
A handful of people who live close to a riverbed must stay away because of their homes' proximity to the fire, Arizona State Forestry spokesman Mike Reichling said.
Firefighters battled two blazes in Southern California, one that was growing as it churned through 30-foot pine trees in a remote area of the San Bernardino Mountains and another that was slowing in northern San Diego County.
"Luckily, there are not a lot of residents up there," U.S. Forest Service spokesman Lee Beyer said, but a number of agency cabins and organizational camps are in the path of the 12-square-mile blaze.
To the south, crews slowed the spread of a wildfire near a casino on the Barona Indian Reservation, state fire spokesman Kendal Bortisser said.