Two firefighters hurt while battling fire near U.S.-Mexico border Controlled fires are used ... near the point of origin in the deadly 2007 Witch Creek Fire, one of the largest wildfires in ...

After a night of rain that potentially aided firefighting efforts, the Border 2 Fire was 43% contained by Monday morning.

Just 15 years later, in September 1928, two fires—the Witch Creek Fire near Santa Ysabel (33,240 acres) and the Beauty Peak Fire near the Riverside County border (67,000 acres) — singed the ...