Fire starts in West Hollywood structure on Sunset Boulevard, spreads to vegetation

It took firefighters in West Hollywood about 40 minutes Tuesday to stop the forward progress of a fire that started with a structure and spread to three acres of vegetation, fanned by strong wind gusts.

Firefighters were first dispatched to a structure fire at 10:11 a.m. on the 8400 block of West Sunset Boulevard, near Kings Road, Los Angeles County Fire Department spokeswoman Kaitlyn Aldana told City News Service.

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Structure-protection units were staged in the area while other firefighters worked on the brush fire.

The fire’s forward progress was stopped at 10:51 a.m., Aldana said.

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