On Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 3:58 PM, 5 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 2 Helicopters, 2 Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, under the direction of Battalion Chief Ronnie Villanueva responded to a Brush Fire at WB 118 FY X West of 5 FY in Mission Hills.

The first arriving Firefighters, responded to a geographically vague dispatch on the WB 118 Freeway between the San Diego and Golden State freeways. Firefighters arrived to discover approximately 1 acre of medium to heavy brush burning.

The greater alarm brush assignment of approximately thirty five Firefighters skillfully anchored the flames, working in concert with their airborne colleagues to limit fire spread. The men and women of the Los Angeles Fire Department were able to limit the fire spread to the one acre and fully extinguished the flames in 15 minutes. Because of the aggressive attack of Fire Department ground and air attack, firefighters held the flames to within 100 feet of structures. Firefighters remained on scene checking for hot-spots.

There were no structures damaged, no evacuations and no reported injuries to civilians or Fire personnel. The fire cause is under investigation until specified.


Submitted by d'Lisa Davies
Los Angeles Fire Department