Firefighters put out three slow-moving brushfires in the Malibu area, but there was no indication they were linked.
A 1/4-acre fire was reported at 2:17 p.m. Saturday in light brush at Las Flores Canyon Road and Rambla Pacifico, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Miguel Ornelas. The flames were put out quickly, but it took two hours to get fire lies cut around it.
Firefighters then responded at 4 p.m. Saturday to a creeping grass fire on Corral Canyon Road above Pacific Coast Highway, Ornelas said.
It burned about a half-acre before it was doused in about 2-1/2 hours. Members of a volunteer fire company in Corral Canyon ferried water down from hydrants in the Malibu Bowl area to other trucks along the road.
Coincidentally, PCH traffic was stopped in the nearby area for two unrelated motorcycle crashes.
In Topanga Canyon, a quarter-acre “spot” fire in the 200 block of Powderhorn Ranch Road where firefighters sent at 6:06 p.m. Saturday had the fire out about 30 minutes later, said a county fire dispatcher.
No injuries were reported in any of three fires.
–City News Service