Crews Smother 7-Acre Brush Fire
An early morning brush fire charred seven acres of hilly grassland north of Fillmore on Friday before it was smothered by a large team of firefighters from across Ventura County.
The blaze broke out at about 8:30 a.m. at the junction of Goodenough and Squaw Flat roads in the Los Padres National Forest, said Humberto Barajas, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department.
Barajas said 120 firefighters from Ventura and Ventura County as well as crews from Oxnard and the California Department of Forestry were on hand. The fire was not far from where a December wildfire blackened more than 600 acres and threatened rare condors living on the Sespe Condor Sanctuary.
Fire investigators were unable to determine the cause of the fire Friday, Barajas said.
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