A fire that broke out Friday in a homeless encampment within the Santa Ana River bottom in Riverside was quickly knocked down after spreading into brush.
The non-injury blaze was reported shortly before 8 a.m. Friday in Anza Narrows Park, just north of Jurupa Avenue, according to the Riverside Fire Department.
The agency said five engine crews, numbering nearly 20 personnel, were sent to the location and encountered flames “at a homeless encampment on an island” that had formed in the middle of the riverbed…