Third Brush Fire in Three Weeks Under Control; 15 Acres Burned
Nearly 15 acres of brush burned in Rancho Palos Verdes on Monday, but no homes were damaged, a county Fire Department official said.
About 100 firefighters and the crews of four helicopters and two Super Scooper aircraft were sent to the 30500 block of Rhone Drive at 11:07 a.m., said county fire spokesman Henry Rodriguez. Several homes were threatened, but the blaze was contained by noon. The cause of the fire was not known.
The brush fire was the third blaze in Rancho Palos Verdes in less than three weeks. Firefighters battled a 10-acre blaze in the Portuguese Bend area Oct. 13 that was ignited by a cigarette. An hour later, a smaller brush fire started three miles west of the first blaze, but it was extinguished before any structures were damaged.
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