It took 20 firefighters 18 minutes Monday evening to extinguished a dumpster fire in Valley Village that spread to volatile vegetation toward a home under construction.
The fire was reported about 9 p.m. Monday in the 5100 block of Colfax Avenue, near Magnolia Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Brian Humphrey.
The vegetation in the path of the flames included Italian cypress trees and the fire could have spread to a single-story home in the framing stage of construction had firefighters not stopped it, Humphrey said.
No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire was under investigation, he said.