Los Angeles firefighters knocked down an approximately two-acre grass fire in the Sepulveda Basin Sunday.

The blaze ignited around 3:30 p.m. Sunday near 6100 N. Woodley Ave., stoked by sustained winds gusting to 20 to 30 miles per hour to the southeast, near the archery range, said LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange.

Employees and patrons of the archery range were evacuated temporarily while firefighters went to work to contain the flames, Prange said. The order was later rescinded.

It took 41 firefighters an hour and 19 minutes to contain the vegetation fire, which consumed grass, brush and trees, he said.

No injuries were immediately reported and the cause of the fire was not immediately known.

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