{"id":22624,"date":"2012-10-05T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=22624"},"modified":"2012-10-05T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T20:37:37","slug":"wind-driven-backyard-fire-contained-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/10\/05\/wind-driven-backyard-fire-contained-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind-driven backyard fire contained quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fire began around 4:48 p.m., Thursday in the 900 Block of East Avenue Q-4. Photo by LUIS MEZA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo by LUIS MEZA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 Thick plumes of smoke in the skies and flames coming through a roadside fence attracted a crowd of onlookers in a Palmdale neighborhood late Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

But the show didn\u2019t last long. It took about 50 firefighters just 20 minutes to contain the wind-driven blaze, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The fire was reported around 4:48 p.m., Thursday in the 900 Block of East Avenue Q-4.<\/p>\n

\u201cResponding units described a small grass fire that was presenting a threat to a single family dwelling that was close by,\u201d said L.A. County Fire Inspector Tony Imbrenda. \u201cThis developed into an outdoor fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the wind that we had it did spread to the eucalyptus [trees] and to a couple of the outbuildings,\u201d said Los Angeles County Fire Captain Jessica Post, adding that winds were approximately 10 to 15 miles an hour when firefighters arrived on scene.<\/p>\n

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Photo by LUIS MEZA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fire destroyed the two outbuildings, but firefighters were able to contain the blaze before it spread to any of the homes in the neighborhood, Post said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were two single story family dwellings that were damaged very minimally on the outside, but nothing on the inside of the structures,\u201d Post said.<\/p>\n

There no damage to any permanent structures, and there were no injuries to civilians or firefighters, Post said.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

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PALMDALE \u2013 Thick plumes of smoke in the skies and flames coming through a roadside fence attracted a crowd of onlookers in a Palmdale neighborhood late Thursday afternoon. But the show didn\u2019t last long. It took about 50 firefighters just 20 minutes to contain the wind-driven blaze, authorities said. The fire was reported around 4:48 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}