Crime & Safety
Firefighters Tackle Elysian Park Brush Fire
It took firefighters about an hour to snuff out a one-acre brush fire in Elysian Park early Friday morning.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Firefighters extinguished a vegetation fire this morning near Elysian Park in just over an hour.
Crews were called about 11:30 p.m. Thursday to 1340 N. Stadium Way and located the blaze, which burned about an acre of vegetation, according to Amy Bastman of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
A knockdown was declared at 12:35 a.m, she said.
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No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation.
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