Firefighters at the scene of a 25-acre vegetation fire in Jurupa Valley have halted the fire’s forward progress, fire authorities said Friday.

Fire crews from the Riverside County Fire Authority responded at approximately 2:06 a.m. Friday to Country Village Road and Philadelphia Avenue where they found the flames burning at a slow to moderate rate of speed, the fire department said.

The fire’s forward progress was stopped after an hour and fire resources will remain at the scene for several hours for mop-up duty.

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