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Firefighters mopping up brush fire in eastern Ventura County, near Lake Piru

A wildfire burning in the mountains east of Piru.
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A wildfire burning in the mountains east of Piru.

Blaze is in the mountains southeast of Lake Piru.

Firefighters are mopping up a wildfire southeast of Lake Piru, near the Ventura-Los Angeles County line that prompted evacuation orders and warnings.

What's being called the Holser Fire was reported just after 1 Saturday afternoon, on the 6700 block of Holser Canyon Road.

Air tankers, helicopters, and more than 200 firefighters battled the blaze. It's a sparsely populated area, but some evacuation orders and warnings were issued. No structures were damaged. Firefighters stopped the growth of the blaze by around 5 Saturday night.

Containment was up to 67% as of Sunday night, with crews still on scene working to get full containment.

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.