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Progress! Containment of wildfire near Ventura/Los Angeles County line up to 80%

The view of the Kenneth Fire from a Ventura County Air Unit helicopter Thursday night.
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The view of the Kenneth Fire from a Ventura County Air Unit helicopter Thursday night.

Blaze stands at just over 1,000 acres burned.

Firefighters now say they have 80% of a wildfire burning near the Ventura/Los Angeles County line.

The Kenneth Fire started Thursday afternoon off as trailhead in the West Hills area. It prompted a number of evacuations in the west end of the San Fernando Valley.

A warning was issued for the east end of the Conejo Valley, but no evacuations were needed. The fire never crossed over the mountains into the Agoura Hills.

Firefighters aided by aircraft stopped the growth of the fire in about four hours. No homes were lost.

As of 1 p.m. Saturday, it had burned just over a thousand acres of land.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.