The remnants of Hurricane Dean may have both started and slowed the spread of a 12-acre brush fire that was put out Sunday night in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains above Altadena.
Homes are threatened and dozens of hikers had to be quickly evacuated due to a brush fire burning in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains above Altadena today, a fire official said.Firefighters sent to North Lake Avenue north of East Loma Alta Drive at 1:20 p.m. found a brush fire was burning five acres and spreading up the hill, said Captain Mike Brown of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The fire broke out on an area heavily used by hikers heading to trails in the Angeles National Forest in the Flores Canyon area. The fire burned in grass and chaparral on very steep slopes about two miles southwest of Mount Lowe and did not reach heritage sites associated with the historic Mount Lowe Railway, according to the Forest Service.
Relatively cool and humid conditions slowed the spread of the flames, and with the aid of aircraft dropping fire retardant, the fire was declared out around 8 p.m., Brown said.
About 220 firefighters from the Angeles National Forest and Los Angeles County Fire Department were assigned to the blaze, he said.
Smoke from the fire was visible from as far away as Santa Monica.
[I will add the picture of the fire that I look from my front door. We had about a dozen helicopters dumping water on the fire non-stop. It was amazing to watch. Some of the helicopter were so close to the house, my windows were shaking and the dogs were going crazy.]
Homes are threatened and dozens of hikers had to be quickly evacuated due to a brush fire burning in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains above Altadena today, a fire official said.Firefighters sent to North Lake Avenue north of East Loma Alta Drive at 1:20 p.m. found a brush fire was burning five acres and spreading up the hill, said Captain Mike Brown of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The fire broke out on an area heavily used by hikers heading to trails in the Angeles National Forest in the Flores Canyon area. The fire burned in grass and chaparral on very steep slopes about two miles southwest of Mount Lowe and did not reach heritage sites associated with the historic Mount Lowe Railway, according to the Forest Service.
Relatively cool and humid conditions slowed the spread of the flames, and with the aid of aircraft dropping fire retardant, the fire was declared out around 8 p.m., Brown said.
About 220 firefighters from the Angeles National Forest and Los Angeles County Fire Department were assigned to the blaze, he said.
Smoke from the fire was visible from as far away as Santa Monica.
[I will add the picture of the fire that I look from my front door. We had about a dozen helicopters dumping water on the fire non-stop. It was amazing to watch. Some of the helicopter were so close to the house, my windows were shaking and the dogs were going crazy.]
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