Crime & Safety
Firefighters Quickly Douse Fire
Flames are contained to brush only and extinguished in about an hour.
Los Angeles County firefighters put out a quarter-acre brush fire in Ramirez Canyon in Malibu on Saturday.
Firefighters were sent to an area not far from Pacific Coast Highway at Kanan-Dume Road at 9:59 a.m. Saturday and had the fire out at 10:47 a.m., a county fire dispatcher said.
No structures were threatened and no injuries were reported, she said.
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A helicopter helped douse the flames in under in an hour, according to reports from the scene.
The cause was under investigation.