Leaders in the Sepulveda Basin are working hard to clear out trees and remove debris. They believe fires in recent years are due to homeless encampments in the basin.
Fires continued to ravage Southern California and thousands were forced to evacuate after multiple brush fires erupted across the Southland on Thursday.
Cleanup efforts focusing on homeless encampments will resume Monday in the Sepulveda Basin, where a brush fire swept through several homeless camps in late July.
The 7-acre brush fire that swept through the Sepulveda Basin Tuesday afternoon has focused the spotlight on the homeless encampment that was scorched.
Firefighters battled a large grass fire in the northern part of the Sepulveda Basin Tuesday afternoon.
A swift-water rescue team plucked a man and his dog from the Los Angeles River in the Sepulveda Basin on Tuesday morning as a major winter storm brought torrential rain to the Southland.