3 Brush Fires Burn But Aren't Linked, Firefighters Say

AGOURA HILLS, CA – Firefighters put out three slow-moving Malibu brushfires, with no indication that any of them were linked. The first fire, a quarter-acre brusher, was reported at 2:17 p.m. Saturday at Las Flores Canyon Road and Rambla Pacifico, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Miguel Ornelas. The flames were put out quickly, but it took two hours to get fire lies cut around it.

The next fire occurred 4 p.m. Saturday, and firefighters responded to the creeping grass fire on Corral Canyon Road above Pacific Coast Highway, Ornelas said. It burned about a half-acre before it was doused in about 2-1/2 hours. Members of a volunteer fire company in Corral Canyon ferried water down from hydrants in the Malibu Bowl area to other trucks along the road.

Coincidentally, PCH traffic was stopped in the nearby area for two unrelated motorcycle crashes. In Topanga Canyon, a quarter-acre "spot" fire in the 200 block of Powderhorn Ranch Road where firefighters sent at 6:06 p.m. Saturday had the fire out about 30 minutes later, said a county fire dispatcher.

No injuries were reported in any of three fires.

City News Service and Patch staffer Emily Holland contributed to this post; Image via Shutterstock