Los Angeles County-Major Brush Fire 08/17/2008

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Date: 08/17/2008

Time: 12:10 P.M.

Location: Northern Los Angeles County-San Francisquito Canyon

Departments: USFS Angeles National Forest, LA County FD

Description: Firefighters battled a brush fire that has consumed at least 250 acres of brush in a little more than two hours Sunday in the Angeles National Forest west of Lancaster, a county fire dispatcher said.

Bulldozers and other heavy equipment from the National Forest Service and Los Angeles County Fire Department were being rushed to what was being called the South Fire at 2 p.m., and California Highway Patrol officers were escorting the fire gear into the area.

Links: NBC Los Angeles Story

Writer: RescueKujo