Dominica Fire Burns 8 Acres Near Sylmar

SYLMAR, CA — A brush fire that raged up a hillside above Lake View Terrace was 95 percent contained at mid afternoon Sunday. City and county firefighters assisted Angeles National Forest crews as they battled the fire in light-to-medium vegetation above Foothill Boulevard near the Wheatland Avenue interchange on the Foothill Freeway. It burned about eight acres.

Firefighters were dispatched at 11:30 a.m. to 11299 Dominica Avenue, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Access was remote and difficult, Stewart said, but no injuries were reported. Firefighting helicopters were brought in from both the city and Los Angeles County fire departments as the flames burned north into county lands.

The fire was on a hillside above Foothill Boulevard and burned to the north, away from developed land, with a slight wind behind it. The fire then burned into the Angeles National Forest and lead responsibility was turned over to those firefighters, according to Angeles National Forest spokesperson Nathan Judy.

"The fire's forward spread is stopped," Judy said at 3:15 p.m. "It's burned about eight acres and was 95 percent contained. Our firefighters were still at the scene to do mop-up and finish containment."

L.A. County initially sent two water-dropping helicopters and about 45 firefights to help out in the battle, said L.A. County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Cheryl Sims. "But those resources were mostly pulled out and sent over to the Mandeville Canyon fire to help L.A. City firefighters," Sims said.

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