Brush Fire Sparked By Car Crash In Malibu; Driver Killed
Malibu Canyon Road was closed in the city of Malibu Monday due to a brush fire due to a car over the side, authorities said.
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Malibu Canyon Road was closed in the city of Malibu Monday due to a brush fire due to a car over the side, authorities said.
Crews responded Monday morning to a 10-acre brush fire moving uphill toward West Covina homes.
Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were called to the residence, located in the 1800 block of West 75th Street, around 1 p.m.
As firefighters knocked down dozens of small brush fires from north to south, a fleet of helicopters took on what was by far the largest of the wildfires, in the San Bernardino Mountains.
The fire burning east of Camp de Benneville Pines and south of Jenks Lake Road prompted help from more than 500 firefighters deployed to the area, along with several aircraft.
An vacant building that was under construction went up in flames Friday in North Hollywood.
Fire crews quickly gained the upper hand on a small brush fire Thursday afternoon near Glendale Community College, authorities said.
Firefighters across the southland are bracing for an increase in heat-related emergency calls and escalated fire danger as already-hot temperatures are expected to get even hotter.
Officials have dubbed the blaze "the Lake Fire."
The fire -- burning on the 8300 block of N. Willis -- has engulfed at least six cars.
Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire Wednesday at a Yorba Linda home where ammunition was heard going off inside.
Residents across the San Gabriel Valley say they can smell the smoke.
Crews are fighting a compost heap fire in Irwindale, snarling traffic on Arrow Highway near the 605 Tuesday evening.
Investigators were on scene on the 2600 block of East Park Lane near Fashion Lane to determine what caused the blaze.
Winds fanned the flames up a hill and toward a freeway guardrail, prompting the California Highway Patrol to order the lane closures on both sides of the freeway. Traffic was backed up for miles.
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were called to the scene at Collwood and E. Valley Boulevard shortly after 5 p.m. Friday.
Crews were responding to a fire burning in a one-story commercial building in South Los Angeles.
A brush fire that broke out in Ontario late Monday afternoon was under control, though hot spots continued to burn into the evening hours.
The blaze located near 160th Street West and Lancaster Road was initially reported around 1:50 p.m. Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The fire has gone to two alarms.
Friends of a man hospitalized in grave condition after a fire at a West Los Angeles apartment complex have identified him as a former actor.
A cat was killed and two people suffered minor injuries in a house fire in El Sereno Thursday.
Firefighters across the city of Los Angeles will no longer water grass at fire stations in an effort to fight the drought, authorities announced Thursday.
Authorities Monday investigated a fire that erupted in a two-story home in Tustin.
A man suspected of starting a fire at a vacant commercial building in West Hollywood that killed another man was in custody Friday
