June 28, 2015
By Richard Brooks and Brian Rokos
Officials (click here) leading the fight against the massive Lake fire mostly welcomed the intermittent, moderate rain that fell in the San Bernardino Mountains on Sunday, June 28, but said there was not enough of it for them to significantly alter their strategy.
National Weather Service rain gauges across the mountains were measuring just a few hundredths of an inch as of 3 p.m.
"That fire is not dead out with that rain, I can assure you that," fire spokesman Mark Savage said. "Our work is far from over."Savage said incident commanders didn't expect to receive reports on the rain's effect from the individual teams deep in the forest until they returned late Sunday afternoon.
But he said there wasn't enough rain to put out a burning tree stump or dense, smoldering vegetation....
