Brush Fire Squelched Near Sun Valley

SUN VALLEY, CA – Firefighters today extinguished a quarter-acre brush fire adjacent to the site of a blaze earlier this month that scarred nearly 7,200 acres in the Sun Valley area.

Fifty-four firefighters sent to the 9900 block of Roscoe Boulevard about 10:20 a.m. extinguished the flames in about 40 minutes, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. No one was hurt, and no homes were threatened.

The "one-quarter acre of volatile medium-density brush (was) in a canyon behind homes, at a location that abuts the scar of the LaTuna wildfire of September 1, 2017," LAFD said.

The La Tuna Fire broke out the afternoon of Sept. 1 and burned around the Verdugo Mountains for more than a week, resulting in some evacuations and at times threatening about 1,400 homes. That fire charred 7,194 acres of brush,left 10 people injured, and destroyed five homes and five outbuildings.

The cause of today's fire is under investigation, the agency said.

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