A brush fire burned dangerously close to homes in the Stevenson Ranch community in the Santa Clarita Valley on Monday afternoon before Los Angeles County firefighters extinguished the flames.
The fire, which was being called the Max Fire by firefighting crews, was reported at around 4:20 p.m. in a hiking area of Pico Canyon Park near Magnolia Lane and Autumn Place, Los Angeles County Fire Department crews said.
Aerial footage showed large flames burning through dense brush on a hillside near a cul-de-sac of homes. Two helicopters dropped off hand crews, who began to shovel in the area to establish containment lines…