It took a team of firefighters in the air and on the ground a little over an hour Saturday to put out a brush fire that burned up to two acres of grass on the southbound Harbor (110) Freeway in Elysian Park that resulted in lanes being shut down on both sides of the freeway.
The fire was reported at 5:44 p.m. Saturday on the side of the southbound 110 Freeway at Stadium Way, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Jennifer Middleton. The blaze was initially reported as a 50-foot- by-50-foot patch of grass.
No structures were threatened, Middleton said. No injuries were reported.
Arson investigators and counterparts from the Los Angeles Police Department were called to the scene, she said.
The California Highway Patrol shut down the two left lanes of both the southbound and northbound sides of the 110.
Firefighters were expected to remain on the scene for some time to put out hot spots and clear a full perimeter of bare ground around the burned area, she said.
It was not immediately known whether the wind driven fire was related to a grass fire farther south where the Harbor Freeway transitions to the Hollywood (101) Freeway.