EVACUATIONS AFTER BLAZE BREAKS THROUGH FIRE LINE NEAR SAN DIEGO, HINDERING
CONTAINMENT

JULIAN - Dozens of residents were evacuated because of a 47,000-acre
wildfire that had jumped a containment line in the mountains east of San Diego.

The town of Warner Springs, population 1,200, was partly evacuated and 70
people were told to leave the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation. In Borrego
Springs, elderly residents who might suffer from smoky air were urged to leave.

The blaze had been about 80 percent contained before it crossed the fire
line on Monday, but afterward it was only 48 percent contained. Full
containment was expected by Sunday evening, officials said.

The blaze started July 29 when a National Guard helicopter clipped a power
line during a search for marijuana plants in the rugged, isolated area. The
fire has destroyed 19 homes.

Elsewhere, drier weather and shifting wind heightened concern that two
wildfires could threaten 220 homes along the Rogue River in southwestern
Oregon. One of the fires was only 10 percent contained and the other was 15
percent contained. Firefighters and Curry County sheriff's deputies went
door-to-door advising people to be ready to leave.

"If we come talk to you a second time, it's time to go," said fire
spokeswoman Susan Mathison. "We don't want you to decide then what to take.
We'd like you to be doing that now."

The fires have burned across 284,000 acres combined in southwestern Oregon
and northeastern California. On its eastern side, the threat had diminished
enough that evacuation warnings were eased for 17,000 residents of the
Illinois River valley.