Arson suspected in La Verne brush fire
July 12, 2009 | 9:28
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A brush fire that burned 95 acres in and around the Marshall Canyon Golf Course may have been deliberately set, authorities said Sunday.
Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Mike Brown said the blaze was suspicious in large part because it had two points of origin.
“Basically, there were two spot fires with vegetation between the two, and it was off a dirt road,” he said. Arson investigators went to the scene.
The fire was 40% contained Sunday at about 8 p.m, about four hours after it broke out, according to fire officials.
No structures were damaged in the fire, which started at the northeast end of the golf course and burned both in La Verne and in an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, Brown said.
-- David Zahniser
