Associated Press
ALPINE, California -- A 7,000-acre wildfire that forced the evacuation of more than a hundred homes near the California-Mexico border may have been caused by an abandoned campfire set by illegal immigrants, authorities said Monday.
The fire had burned nearly 11 square miles of brush and chaparral in the Cleveland National Forest in southern San Diego County.
It appeared to have spread early Saturday from an abandoned campfire set in a side drainage of a canyon, the U.S. Forest Service said in a statement. Evidence at the scene suggested “the campfire was left by undocumented immigrants,” it said.
Posted by Tyne at July 25, 2006