Friday’s Agoura Hills Brushfire Was In Area Burned Clear 18 Months Ago
Written by 991KBU on June 13, 2020
A brushfire over the hill in Agoura Hills yesterday was put out fairly quickly …
But it has a scary message for Malibu.
The fire broke out near a construction site at the south end of Liberty Canyon … about 12 miles north of Malibu.
yesterday … just before 2:30.
L A County sent the regular two-alarm brush fire assignment.
That means 200 firefighters … several helicopters.
One helicopter crew had been dong training exercises near there …
The used water from nearby Malibou Lake to fly about 1-1/2 mile north to the fire.
The first crews to arrive said the blaze was roughly three acres.
In one hour … it grew to 12 acres.
In two hours … the department said forward progress had been stopped and the blaze was 50% contained.
No injuries have been reported and no structures were threatened.
Crews from Ventura County and the city of Los Angeles fire departments also responded.
And here is the scary part of this fire.
The land that burned yesterday had been burned in the Woolsey Fire … 18 months ago.
Since Woolsey … thick weeds and grass have blanketed the burn scar.
Woolsey removed decades of accumulated fuel.
But the grass and weeds burn fast.
About three-fourths of Malibu remains threatened by brush that has not burned for years … or in the case of eastern Malibu … for decades.
And the Woolsey Fire burn area … now covered by thick weeds and grass … burns fast.
Fire season is just beginning.
