So. California Battles Wildfires

Six southern California firefighters were injured Sunday -- two of them seriously -- while battling a brush fire, reports CBS affiliate KFMB in San Diego.

The fire has charred 5,000 acres since in it began Thursday off State Route 76 on the western edge of La Jolla Indian Reservation.

The two seriously injured firefighters suffered head injuries when they were hit by falling rocks. The other injuries were the result of bee stings and spider bites.

On Thursday, crews fought the flames in triple-digit heat and had to evacuate a camping area for 6th graders. Residents of Will Valley were asked to leave their homes Saturday. So far no homes have been damaged.

The blaze was reportedly started by a trash fire.

Another wildfire is burning out of control in southeastern San Diego County near the town of Campo, Calif. A U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman says the fire started at 2 p.m. Sunday and has burned more than 2,000 acres.

Homes east of Campo are threatened.

The fire is burning along both sides of Smith Canyon, which is about 50 miles east of the city of San Diego and just a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The California Department of Forestry has sent 200 firefighters and nine air tankers to the scene. There is no estimate yet as to when the fire will be brought under control.

Meanwhile, two much larger fires burning in central California are 50 percent contained. Firefighters in Big Sur country have been aided by cooler, calmer weather.

In far Northern California, two fires which have burned almost 100,000 acres are almost out.

Firefighters are bringing another fire in the Sierra foothills under control, and authorities have let residents from two remote communities return home.

And in Oregon, the mop-up continues at the forest fire west of Eugene, reports CBS affiliate KVAL-TV. The fire has burned more than 1,000 acres near Walton in the Coast Range, but it's now completely contained.