BRUSH FIRE THREATENS AREA GOLF COURSE.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Mistry is a surname, and may refer to:
This page or section lists people with the surname Mistry. Daily News Staff Writer Firefighters had another bout with summer heat Wednesday Wednesday: see week. as they tackled a brush fire that came within 200 feet of a golf course, officials said. The fire broke out at 4:31 p.m. in the dry, grass-covered Adj. 1. grass-covered - covered with grass; "wide grass-covered plains as far as the eye could see" grassy - abounding in grass hills across Elizabeth Elizabeth, sister of King Louis XVI of France Elizabeth, 1764–94, sister of King Louis XVI of France, known as Madame Elizabeth. Deeply loyal to her brother, she remained in France during the French Revolution, suffered imprisonment, and was Lake Road from the Elizabeth Lake Golf and Country Club and was fanned by winds reaching about 15 mph. ``We noticed it right away,'' said Elizabeth Sullivan, a waitress at the golf course's Half Way Cafe, where workers called 911. ``It started as a small circle fire but it grew really big, really quick. A small fire started on this side too, but they put that out right away. Firefighters offered no immediate answer for what started the fire, which by 5:30 p.m. had burned about 30 acres. As 200 firefighters from Lancaster, Palmdale and Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and four water-dropping helicopters fought the fire, golfers, Little Leaguers and restaurant patrons watched the flames. ``It's blowing away from us so I think we'll be OK,'' said Sullivan. Officials said that no homes or structures were threatened at the onset of the fire, which was blowing toward unoccupied hills. |
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