Firefighters for a second day fought two small multi-alarm brush fires within nine miles from one another — one near Calabasas and another in the Topanga area.
One firefighter suffered a minor heat-related injury but no structures have been threatened by the fires, which broke out within minutes of one another Thursday afternoon. There were no reports of injuries to civilians, authorities said.
One blaze — dubbed the Stokes Fire — was reported at 2:54 p.m. Thursday near Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road and went to three alarms, with more than 220 firefighters deployed at one point, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Forty-two acres have been scorched, with the fire listed as 91 percent contained as of about 7 p.m. Friday, Cal Fire reported.
The other brush fire was reported at 3:09 p.m. Thursday near Topanga Canyon Boulevard, north of Pacific Coast Highway, in the unincorporated Topanga area, and quickly went to two alarms.
The Topanga Fire has scorched about 55 acres in steep terrain and was 40 percent contained as of about 7 p.m. Friday.
The blaze sparked a 5-acre brush spot fire that was extinguished, a county department inspector said.
The fire forced the closure of Topanga Canyon Boulevard about one-half mile from PCH. That closure continued Friday evening.
There were also temporary closures of Pacific Coast Highway around Topanga Canyon Boulevard during the first hours of the fire.
The Los Angeles Fire Department, which was in unified command with county firefighters on the Topanga Fire, sent ground and air crews and firefighters were also dispatched to Coastline Drive to protect homes.
—City News Service