Firefighters are calling a fire at a Wonder Valley abandoned homestead cabin Friday suspicious. Just before 5 p.m. Friday, firefighters from Twentynine Palms, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, and the Combat Center, as well as a water tender crew, were called to the blaze at McAndrew and Highway 62, about 17 miles east of Twentynine Palms. The cabin was burned to the ground. County Fire Battalion Chief Scott Tuttle said there were no utilities to the vacant cabin. Fire engines from the Combat Center and Twentynine Palms became stuck in the sandy road leading to the cabin, and Tuttle had to call for a county bulldozer to tow out the engines.
Twentynine Palms firefighters were called back to the scene about 5:20 Sunday afternoon for a vegetation fire; crews found smoldering trees. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
