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Southern California Firefighters Team up to Battle the Eagle Fire

A helicopter base and command post are set up in the Warner Springs area to fight the 4,000-acre brush fire.

Fire agencies from all over Southern California are assembling in the Warner Springs area Saturday to continue to battle the 4,000-acre , which began Thursday night.

The fire was reported early Saturday to be 30 percent contained. On Friday afternoon, CalFire reported it had moved eastward down into the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and Bureau of Indian Affairs lands.

The blaze erupted on Los Coyotes Indian Reservation in an area leased to a private company that provides the space for military and government training exercises. A guard shack was consumed in the flames. The company is ERTC, formerly known as Eagle Rock Training Center. Click here to see a video tour by Channel 8 TV in May 2011.

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The command post for Saturday's firefighting effort is at Puerta La Cruz, a conservation camp north of Warner Springs Airport, which is administered by the state Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation. Crews from this facility and others are helping to fight the brush fire.

There have been no injuries in the fire, and no other structures are currently threatened.

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CalFire reported Saturday morning that the cost to suppress the blaze is currently estimated to be $2 million.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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