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Brush Fire Breaks Out in Brentwood; LAFD Stops Forward Progress
Firefighters used a helicopter and ground crews to stop the blaze after it burned about 2 acres, with no injuries or damage reported.
- On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Fire Department stopped a brush fire that burned about 1.5 acres near the Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles Campus, with no structures damaged and no injuries reported.
- This blaze erupted as the region braces for its first Santa Ana wind event of the season, triggering a Red Flag Warning due to critical fire danger across the area.
- Meteorologist Ryan Kittell of the National Weather Service in Oxnard reports humidity will range between 5% and 15% with high temperatures reaching 85 to 95 degrees, creating major fire risk.
- Firefighters remain on scene for mop-up and containment operations, while crews protected nearby homes and apartments from the flames; the LAFD investigates the fire's cause.
- Windy conditions will start to ramp up Thursday, with the strongest winds expected Friday; large swaths of Southern California will see sustained winds of 20 to 40 mph and gusts reaching 40 to 60 mph.
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The Fire Department reported that fire advance stopped in Brentwood; the region has been on alert since Thursday due to heat and strong winds.
·Los Angeles, United States
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Brush Fire Breaks out in Brentwood; LAFD Stops Forward Progress
Firefighters stopped forward progress of a brush fire in Brentwood Wednesday that was near the Department of Veterans Affairs’ West Los Angeles Campus. A fire burned 1.5 acres of dense brush around 2:48 a.m. Wednesday around 4 Bonsall Ave., near the northwest corner of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ West Los Angeles Campus, according to […]
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