Yucca Valley firefighters responded to a small wildfire in the San Bernardino County Forest near Tip Top Mountain, west of Burns Canyon Saturday afternoon. Just before 3 p.m., witnesses in the Rimrock area north of Pioneertown and the Mountain Top area of Big Bear called to report a wildfire, sparked by lightening during a brief thunderstorm. Yucca Valley firefighters arrived to find about three acres burning well off the road in steep terrain. Firefighters called in fixed-wing aircraft from Cal Fire, which dropped fire retardant to slow the spread of the fire and keep it in check on the ridgeline. Control of the fire was turned over to the U.S. Forest Service, who remained on scene to construct containment lines and perform mop up of the fire.
