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Firefighters battled a brush fire in Thermal that sent two of them to a nearby hospital for heat exhaustion.
The fire started at 3:50 p.m. Monday at 58th Avenue and Jackson Street, said Capt. Lori Windsor of the Riverside County Fire Department in a telephone interview.
The firefighters were expected to be released from the hospital Monday evening, said Riverside County Fire Department Division Fire Chief Ignacio Otero in a telephone interview from the scene.
Otero said the area, from Avenue 58 at Jackson Street and Avenue 58 at Calhoun Street, was closed briefly to traffic.
On the north side of Avenue 58, some homes were slightly threatened but fire trucks were protecting them.
The fire was expected to be under control by midnight, Otero said.
The fire started in an abandoned structure, went into the brush and caused some power lines to go down, leaving people in the immediate area without power, Otero said.
