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(Reuters) - Evacuation orders were lifted on Sunday morning after a fast-moving brush fire east of Los Angeles had threatened more than 200 homes overnight, fire department officials said.
The blaze, named the "Highway Fire," had grown to about 300 acres and was 15 percent contained, according to an overnight update posted on the Riverside County Fire Department website.
Officials were waiting on Sunday for smoke to clear to reassess the extent of the blaze in the Prado Dam region, about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles in drought-stricken California.
The fire was first reported in trees around 6 p.m. local time on Saturday, the department said.
No injuries have been reported, and hundreds of firefighters were battling the blaze.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere and Letitia Stein; Editing by Jane Merriman and Frances Kerry)
