Cal Fire is trying to contain a wildfire that broke out near San Luis Reservoir on the border of Merced and Santa Clara counties on Wednesday morning.
The blaze, at Highway 152 and Dinosaur Point Road in Santa Nella, grew to about 650 acres at 1:12 p.m., according to the Cal Fire incident website. It is currently at 30% containment.
The Point Fire, as Cal Fire is calling it, was first reported as a 20-acre vegetation fire at 9:52 a.m. Cal Fire’s Madera-Mariposa-Merced unit is responding to the wildfire…