The blaze has charred 37,020 acres since it sparked Tuesday and is now 68 percent contained, authorities said Saturday.
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The Community Foundation – which serves San Bernardino and Riverside Counties – has committed the first $100,000 to the fund and encourages others to join in their concern for those whose lives have been affected by this disaster.
As the Blue Cut Fire raged out of control it prompted the evacuation of roughly 34,000 homes and almost 87,000 people were forced to leave their homes.
SCE officials have identified 384 poles that were either damaged or destroyed in the fire, according to a post on the utility’s website. The suspects were spotted at a home in the 8600 block of Swarthout Canyon, an unincorporated area of San Bernardino, around 7 a.m. Thursday when someone called in a report of suspicious people at an evacuated home, the sheriff’s department said.
There have been no reported deaths.
More than 34,000 buildings, though, are still threatened by the fast-moving fire, which is being fed by extreme drought conditions.
Numerous power poles along a stretch of Highway 138, between the 15 freeway and Highway 2, were toppled over or blackened.
Incident commanders for the Forest Service are appealing to the public for any information about the fires origin.
The cause of the fire, which is one of several burning in California, is not yet known.
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In northern California, the Clayton Fire in Lake County has burned almost 4,000 acres and destroyed at least 175 homes.
