![]() ![]() No containment was reported throughout the day while the fire grew considerably as it burned predominantly in a north, east and southward direction towards the Banning bluff area. The main fire proceeded to rapidly expand to 350 acres within its first two hours prompting the Riverside County Sheriff's Department to issue mandatory evacuations for well over 200 residences in the Cherry Valley area. A third initially presumed arson fire had also been reported due south of the first two, which went on to burn between 60 and 80 acres as well as several unidentified buildings. ![]() The two separate fires merged just under an hour later at 5:45 pm. Reportedly starting at 4:55 pm PST on Friday, July 31, as what was initially presumed to be two potential arson ignitions that later merged into one another, the fires started along the 9000 block of Oak Glen Road and Apple Tree Lane in the unincorporated community of Cherry Valley bordering Beaumont. The fire was named after one of the roadways close to the ignition site, which is named Apple Tree Lane. It now covers at least 33,424 acres (13,526 ha) and created "a plume of smoke so massive that it generated its own winds." The fire was sparked by a diesel-burning vehicle that emitted burning carbon. The fire ignited on Friday, Jas three separate smaller blazes within the rural canyons along Oak Glen Road before merging and rapidly expanded to 1,900 acres (769 ha) and destroyed at least one home and two outbuildings in the Cherry Valley area. ![]() ![]() The Apple Fire was a wildfire that burned during the 2020 California wildfire season in Cherry Valley south of Oak Glen and north of Beaumont and Banning in Riverside County, California in the United States. ![]()
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