Endangered plants and bird
U.S. Forest Service officials are afraid of what effect the blaze will have on 12 federally listed endangered plant speces and one endangered bird.
The southwest willow flycatcher is known to have a habitat in Holcomb Creek, an area where the fire has ripped through since Saturday.
Also threatened are the ash gray paintbrush plant, south mountain wild buckwheat, Bear Valley sandwort, California dandelion, San Bernardino bluegrass, bird-foot checkerbloom, slender-patalled mustard, parish's daisy, Cushenbury oxytheca, San Bernardino bladderpod, Cushenbury buckwheat and Cushenbury milk-vetch.
-- Stacia Glenn