Crime & Safety
Car Plunges Down Topanga Cliff, Ignited Brushfire
Stopped cars on the two-lane road hampered rescue vehicles, who couldn't find a driver in the wreckage at the bottom of the canyon.
A brushfire was ignited in lower Topanga Canyon, when a car plunged down a cliff and ignited today.
The fire burned a small area of canyon bottom but was put out within a half hour by a combined effort of more than 100 Los Angeles city and county firefighters.
The crash was reported at 10:07 a.m. on the winding canyon road, one mile north of Pacific Coast Highway. Initial CHP reports were that one person was trapped in the wreckage, but no driver was found.
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The initial sizeup was that there was a 60-by-100-foot area burning, 10 minutes after the call.
A large number of stopped cars was reported on the two-lane road, hampering rescue vehicles. The road, which links Topanga Canyon village to the coast, was closed for about two hours.
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