Firefighters have extinguished a cluster of fires northeast of Barstow, including one that ignited a Union Pacific rail car transporting a shipping container holding an automobile, authorities said.
 
As of 13:45 the fires are out, San Bernardino County Fire Department Capt. Jeremy Kern said.
 
Dispatch received a report of smoke at 11:00 about 40 miles east of Barstow along railroad tracks in Afton Canyon, Kern said.
 
Crews arrived near 44901 Afton Canyon Road just after noon to find a road only accessible to four-wheel-drive vehicles leading to the fires, Kern said.
 
Once on the scene, firefighters found two to three small fires burning and a rail car on fire, he said.
 
Two engines are on the scene and firefighters have reported the fires out, Kern said, but the battalion chief assigned to the fire has yet to access the fire in person.
 
Crews from the Bureau of Land Management and the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow Fire and Emergency Services Division are assisting county fire.
 
No injuries have been reported.
 
Kern said the cause of the fire is still unknown.
 
Garrett Bergthold.