Scout Injured, 6 Acres Burned in Brush Fire

An Explorer Scout was injured and six acres of brush burned in a fire believed to have been deliberately set Tuesday on a Glendale hillside less than two miles from the site of a disastrous fire that destroyed or damaged 66 homes in June.

The fire broke out about 1:20 p.m. near Menlo Drive and Vista del Mar in an area of expensive hillside homes, said Glendale Fire Capt. Steve Wood. No homes were damaged, Wood said.

It took firefighters four hours to quell the blaze. The unidentified Explorer Scout, who was working in a fire training program, was treated for heat exhaustion and released from Verdugo Hills Hospital. The cause of the fire was listed as suspicious.

It was the second brush fire in two weeks in Glendale. A faulty power transformer was blamed for a 7-acre greater-alarm fire Aug. 20 in the Rossmoyne section of the hills. The roof of one house was slightly damaged in that blaze.