Cleanup effort begins on burned river park areas

Nearly 300 acres of the future San Luis Rey River Park were burned by the Lilac fire, and the county's Department of Parks and Recreation has begun cleanup efforts.

"As wildfires go damage wasn't as bad as it could have been, which is a testament to the strength of our integrated emergency management system," said Department of Parks and Recreation marketing and public outreach manager Jessica Geiszler. "Agencies banded together to tackle the disaster head-on, and that confined the spread of the fire and limited damage to one region."

The cleanup includes the trimming of damaged branches as we...