Firefighters are still battling the Eureka Fire, which is burning in Joshua Tree National Park. The blaze was first reported on Friday just before noon in the Covington Flats area near Carmelita Place in Yucca Valley,

A vegetation fire south of Joshua Tree in San Bernardino County reported just past noon on Friday, May 30 has grown to 175 acres, Watch Duty, a wildfire information nonprofit, says on its site. The blaze, dubbed the Eureka fire, is near Lower Covington Flat Road and Nolina Cove Road, in a part of Joshua Tree National Park.

The fire is burning in the Covington Flats area of Joshua Tree National Park, an important region where experts say the trees are best suited to survive and reproduce in a warming climate.