Crime & Safety
Brush Fire Threatens Home In Sylmar Area
Los Angeles firefighters held a brush fire near Lakeside Street to 25 acres.
SYLMAR, CA — A small brush fire threatened homes on a Sylmar hillside Thursday afternoon and blackened 25 acres before firefighters stopped the wildfire's forward progress, according to the Los Angeles Fire department.
The blaze broke out shortly before 2 p.m. near the 15200 block of Lakeside Street. The fire burned uphill, scorching vegetation and threatening one home in the area, according to Nicholas Prange, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman.
Los Angeles County Fire Department crews were called to assist roughly 100 LAFD firefighters in defending structures in the area as the brusher grew to about seven acres.
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Prange said crews managed to stop forward progress of the fire at about 25 acres by 3:35 p.m. No structures were damaged in the fire and no injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire was under investigation
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City News Service contributed to this report.
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