EDGEMONT — Firefighters from the Riverside County Fire Department were battling a five-acre brush fire Saturday in Edgemont, east of Riverside.

The fire was reported just after 3 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of Cactus Avenue and Meridian Parkway, where firefighters found the fire burning at a moderate rate of spread.

The fire’s forward progress was stopped around 4 p.m.

No injuries or evacuations were reported.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.