Brush Fire Breaks Out in Northeast San Fernando Valley
The progress of a what the Los Angeles Fire Department called a major emergency brush fire in the northeast San Fernando Valley was stopped late Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters were sent to the 10000 block of Sunland Way, just off of Sunland Boulevard, in Shadow Hills shortly after 1 p.m. on what was initially reported as a five-acre brush fire, according to Nicholas Prange of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The fire was burning uphill with winds of about 8 mph reported in the area and grew to 107 acres by about 3:45 p.m., Prange said.