Los Angeles County Fire Department crews will be keeping an eye on hotspots in the Santa Monica Mountains Tuesday morning after a Monday brush fire started moving towards homes in the upper reaches of Topanga Canyon.
There will be mapping flights Tuesday to update the footprint on the fire, which was estimated at 15 to 20 acres before helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft slowed its forward progress. Engines and crews on the ground were able to stop it. It took nearly two hours of work for firefighting crews to stop the fire entirely.
The LA County Fire Department confirmed there were no civilian injuries resulting from the fire. One firefighter did experience a minor injury.
Eva Montealegre and her husband have lived in one of the homes above Tuna Canyon for almost 30 years. She appreciated the quick response for the fire department as the fire moved in their direction.
“I was thinking I’m very grateful that the fire department has put up a whole station here. I know for a fact that [the firefighting crews] have water up there, and they have helicopters that pick up the waters and then drop it," Montealegre said.
"I thought, ‘OK, we have a chance here.’”
She and her husband barely survived the 1993 Malibu fire. There were relieved they didn’t have to go through another firefighting experience this time.