Three homes were damaged by flames when a small brushfire ignited in Eagle Rock on Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Firefighters responded in the sweltering heat. Temperatures in the area reached a high of 96 degrees. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles firefighters were called just after 2 p.m. to the 2800 block of Palmer Drive after receiving calls of a one-acre brushfire burning uphill near homes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. <\/p>\n
Multiple crews responded to the fire as it burned near the 2 Freeway. Firefighters also set up defensive positions around several nearby homes. <\/p>\n
Fire officials said one home along Palmer Drive was significantly damaged by the flames, with fire shooting through the roof at one point. Two others were also damaged.<\/p>\n
By 3 p.m., Los Angeles Fire Department officials said forward progress on the fire had been stopped, but crews were still working to knock down the flames. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the department said all occupants of the home that was significantly damaged were uninjured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three homes were damaged by flames when a small brushfire ignited in Eagle Rock on Thursday afternoon. Firefighters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[137293,161226,3802,4330,26504,1073,48,52,51,47,6024,50,49,63,126602,1594,161227,161228,119565,93880,36898],"class_list":["post-401797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-defensive-position","tag-eagle-rock-brush-fire","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-flame","tag-home","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-fire-department","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-multiple-crew","tag-other","tag-palmer-drive","tag-several-nearby-home","tag-small-brush-fire","tag-summer-heat","tag-temperature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}