UPDATE: Summit Fire Burned Area 75 Pct Contained, Crews On Scene Thru Night

Update 6:32 p.m. The Summit Fire burned area in north Banning was declared 75 percent contained as of 6:20 p.m. Friday May 3, according to Cal Fire.

"Forward spread stopped," Jody Hagemann of Cal Fire-Riverside County said in an update Friday evening. "Firefighters will remain on scene throughout the night to patrol fire area for hot spots and improve containment lines."

The fire broke out Wednesday May 1 near Mias Canyon Road and Bluff Road at the north end of San Gorgonio Avenue, rapidly increased in size and tore over Banning Bench, destroying one home and another structure before sundown Wednesday.

The burned area remained estimated at 2,956 acres. No details of the investigation into what caused the fire had been announced as of Friday evening.

Posted 10:52 a.m. Some 400 firefighters were still battling a blaze that tore across Banning Bench and destroyed a home and another structure, but the fire was 65 percent contained Friday morning, officials said.

The fire was first reported about 12:40 p.m. Wednesday on Mias Canyon Road, near Bluff Road, according to fire officials.

It quickly spread, consuming close to 3,000 acres before its rate of spread was stopped.

The fire's perimeter was mapped at 2,956 sites.

To read more about the fire and conditions under which emergency crews worked, please click here.

To read an interview with the homeowner whose house was gutted by the blaze, please click here.