LAFD Puts Out Two-Day Mandeville Canyon Fire
Posted by Daniel Antolin on Sep 7, 2011 - 10:19:45 PM
Helicopter drops water on 40-acre brushfire. Photo courtesy of LAFD.
BRENTWOOD—On Wednesday, September 7, the Los Angeles Fire Department related that a slow-moving brushfire in Mandeville Canyon in Brentwood was completely extinguished two days after it was initially reported on Labor Day, having been contained at 40 acres.
"LAFD remained on scene on this lengthy mop-up ensuring no hotspots," LAFD spokesperson Erik Scott tweeted at 4:15 p.m.
Two male
firefighters, one from the LAFD and another from the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, were transported to a
local hospital in fair to serious condition as a result of heat-related
injuries, Scott tweeted at 10:19 p.m.
Before 12 p.m., Scott told Canyon News that he had not yet heard from his field commander regarding the progress of the brushfire since the night before, the cause of which remains under active investigation.
On September 6, at
7:06 p.m., LAFD spokeperson Matt Spence tweeted that 80 percent of the
brushfire had been contained, which he said torched 40 acres of land.
This was based on an aerial survey of the area.
There has been no structure damage since the brushfire was
reported to the LAFD as occurring at 3683 N. Mandeville Canyon Road on September 5 sometime before 4:10 p.m., when firefighters were still en
route and as the fire was slowly moving north. Though no structures were immediately
near where the fire was first spotted.
"Grnd and air crews worked hotspots all day. Will maintain watch overnight, [sic]" Spence said.
According
to a September 5 tweet from LAFD spokesperson Brian Humphrey,
firefighters kept the brushfire abated to about 10 acres as of 10:34
p.m., and that they were working to put out a remaining 50 percent of
the blaze throughout the night. Los Angeles County Fire Department camp
crews arrived to assist them.
Super scooper plane on its way to pick up water. Photo courtesy of Will Maguire.
Residents
evacuated their homes during the brushfire, which was initially limited
to five acres, but spread to 10 acres at a time when the temperature in the area
was at 92 degrees. Slow moving wind and wind gusts helped keep them in their efforts. Will
Maguire, a Los Angeles-based attorney, tweeted a photo at 5:50 p.m. of a
super scooper plane that was on its way to the Pacific Ocean to pick up
1,600 gallons of water to later drop on the fire. It is one of several
planes leased to the LAFD from Canada for this purpose.
At 10:27 p.m., residents were allowed to return to their homes. "Severe
computer problems" during the height of the fire delayed Humphrey from
immediately altering residents about this via Twitter.
Since the Mandeville brushfire broke, LAFD had been tackling other
blazes in La Tuna Canyon, the Sepulveda Pass, the Agua Dulce area and
Tehachapi.
Ed
Shanks, a local resident, was nonetheless grateful for firefighters'
efforts. "Just arrived back home in Mandeville. Thank you @LAFD for
giving us one to come home to," Shanks tweeted.
"We thank you and your neighbors for both support & patience while we tackled flames," Humphrey tweeted.
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