Los Angeles County firefighters were called to the South Fork of the Santa Clara River on Friday morning after a fire broke out in the riverbed, and they halted the blaze less than a half hour after it was reported.
The vegetation fire, in the riverbed near the intersection of Bouquet Canyon Road and Magic Mountain Parkway, was initially reported at 9:42 a.m., according to the PulsePoint app.
The first Fire Department personnel on the scene described it as a 50- by 50-foot spot fire with no structures threatened, according to first responder radio dispatch traffic…