Grass fire eats 10 acres at Scholl Canyon Park

Judy Seckler

CHEVY CHASE ESTATES -- Firefighters from Glendale, Burbank and

Pasadena worked quickly to contain a 10-acre fire at Scholl Canyon Park

by 6:30 p.m. Sunday, said Chief Steve Howard, Fire Department Public

Information Officer.

There were no injuries or structural damage from the fire, Howard

said.

The fire department received an alert regarding the grass fire at 4:30

p.m. The call was made by a park visitor from a pay phone. The cause of

the grass fire was not known.

The Glendale Fire Department dispatched 10 fire engines and one truck

to the scene in the canyon just beyond the baseball fields. The Pasadena

Fire Department sent one fire engine.

Glendale Fire also received assistance from the Los Angeles County

system, which sent one fire engine and three helicopters. In the canyon,

camp crews worked to clear brush and create a clean path from “burn to

unburn,” Howard said.

Fire units kept the media away from the fire zone until the fire

became manageable, shortly after 6 p.m. Only one structure -- a brick

pump house -- was threatened, but firefighters had the fire under control

so that the structure and the surrounding power lines received no damage.