Aug 17, 2008 2:23 pm US/Pacific
Fire Burns 150 Acres In Angeles National Forest
GREEN VALLEY
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Firefighters battled a brush fire that has consumed at 150 acres of brush in two hours Sunday in the Angeles National Forest west of Lancaster, a county fire dispatcher said.
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Firefighters battled a brush fire that has consumed at 150 acres of brush in a little more than two hours Sunday in the Angeles National Forest west of Lancaster, a county fire dispatcher said.
Firefighters were first sent to the scene at San Francisquito Canyon Road west of Spunky Canyon Road at 12:10 p.m., the dispatcher said.
The fire's center was near a firebreak known as the South Truck Trail, southwest of the settlement of Green Valley.
Bulldozers and other heavy equipment from the National Forest Service and Los Angeles County Fire Department was being rushed to the "South Fire" at 2 p.m.
The California Highway Patrol officers were escorting the fire gear into the area.
At 2:15 p.m., CHP officers at the scene were reporting the fire was an estimated 95 percent uncontained and county dispatchers said 150 acres had burned.
San Francisquito Canyon Road was being closed to through traffic west of Green Valley, and north of Santa Clarita.
The rough area is the scene of frequent brushfires, and is a mixture of grasslands and trees at about 3,000 feet of elevation.
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