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May 15, 2008 8:24 pm US/Pacific

Firefighters Battle Small Blaze In Griffith Park

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Firefighters are battling a small brushfire in Los Angeles' sprawling Griffith Park.

Fire Department spokesman Lauren DeRosier says 100 firefighters are fighting the blaze, which had burned about a quarter acre by 4 p.m. Thursday.

DeRosier says the fire is burning downhill from the Griffith Observatory but is not threatening any homes.

A little over a year ago, a fierce wildfire roared through hundreds of acres in the park and forced evacuations in adjacent neighborhoods.

The 4,100-acre wilderness area in the middle of the city still bears the scars of a major wildfire a year ago.

Another fire was burning on about two acres of grass in the valley's Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve. Fifty firefighters were working there.

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