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Fire crews working to extinguish blaze at Camp Pendleton

CAMP PENDLETON (CNS) - Crews worked Friday to contain a fire that blackened swaths of brushy open land on a firing range at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps spokesman reported.

The blaze, sparked by live-fire exercises early Thursday evening, had spread over about 140 hilly acres as of late Friday afternoon, USMC Capt. Barry

Edwards said. By then, military, state and federal firefighters had the burn area roughly 75 percent contained, he said.

The wildfire in the south-central reaches of the Oceanside-area military base had a slow rate of spread and posed no threats to structures or personnel, the captain said.