WILDFIRE BURNS ACRES OF GRASS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services A fast-moving wildfire 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. about 300 acres of grass, forcing the closure of one roadway, 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 firefighters said Friday. More than 200 firefighters and seven helicopter crews battled the flames that were reported at 12:27 p.m. near 80th Street West and West Avenue D-14, said county fire spokesman Ed Loney. Although flames were within about 30 yards of some homes at one point, the threat to the structures diminished as the fire moved in a different direction in the sparsely sparse adj. spars·er, spars·est Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense. [Latin sparsus, past participle of spargere, to scatter. populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. area, Loney said. Firefighters also worked aggressively in the early stages of the fire, setting backfires to stop the flames from spreading further, officials said. No evacuations were ordered and there were no reports of injuries, officials said. Firefighters were able to control the fire by 3 p.m. The fire forced closure of West Avenue D-14 between 60th Street West and 80th Street West, Loney said. Ted France, 18, who was at home sleeping when the fire started, said the flames came within 300 feet of his home on Avenue D-14. He found out about the fire when his girlfriend telephoned and warned him that there was a fire near his home. ``I woke up and I saw it,'' France said. ``It's never been this close before.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) A firefighting 1. firefighting - What sysadmins have to do to correct sudden operational problems. An opposite of hacking. "Been hacking your new newsreader?" "No, a power glitch hosed the network and I spent the whole afternoon fighting fires." 2. helicopter drops water behind a ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. in Antelope Acres on Friday. A fire burned 300 acres of the thinly populated area. (2--Color) A fast-moving fire burns on 70th Street Friday near Avenue D. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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