ARSON DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING BOUQUET CANYON FIRE DRY CONDITIONS FED BLAZE THAT CAME WITHIN FEET OF HOMES.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LEONA VALLEY - Sheriff's arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. detectives joined the investigation into a brush fire that blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. 120 acres of hillside near Bouquet Canyon Road and threatened several homes. Fire officials were told a suspicious green car had been reported in the area within five minutes of the fire's start, about 5 p.m. Sunday along Bouquet Canyon Road. ``It's just so historically dry that it doesn't take much,'' Battalion Chief Don DeYoung said Tuesday. After their start at the roadside, the flames jumped the road and burned up a hillside, getting within feet of several ranch-style homes. The flames were burning near the homes when the first firefighters arrived. ``We went straight into structure protection,'' DeYoung said. Firefighters later stopped the flames before they got to more homes along the other side of a ridge, along Lost Canyon Road at the southern edge of the community of Leona Valley. Close to 200 Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County, U.S. Forest Service and Los Angeles city firefighters battled the blaze, which was contained about 1 a.m. Monday. Two air tankers, four helicopters and two bulldozers also fought the fire. Dozens of firefighters stayed on duty Monday to guard against flare-ups. A Los Angeles city Fire Department helicopter equipped with an infrared scope checked the area to make sure all the hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. were within the burned-off area. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition -- ran in AV and SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. edition only) A firefighter cools down hot spots on a 120-acre brush fire that broke out Sunday afternoon on Bouquet Canyon Road, in the Leona Valley area. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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