Crews are working Thursday to fully encircle a brush fire that broke out in the Santa Ana River bottom amid offshore winds that propelled it in the direction of homes, burning roughly 39 acres before its progress was stopped.

A brush fire that broke out in the Santa Ana River bottom amid offshore winds that propelled it in the direction of homes burned roughly 38 acres Wednesday before its progress was stopped. The non-injury Clay Fire was reported at 4:45 p.

Jurupa Valley fire crews are back on scene battling a brush fire in the Santa Ana River bottom, after having extinguished a blaze in a similar location last week.

Firefighters in Riverside County are battling a wildfire that erupted in a Santa Ana river bottom Tuesday night. The Clay Fire, which was first reported at 5 p.m. near the intersection of Van Buren Boulevard and Clay Street in Jurupa Valley,