A vehicle caught fire in a Saugus neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, but no injuries or transports were reported and arson is not suspected, according to first responders.
Firefighters were dispatched to the intersection of Festividad Drive and Bouquet Canyon Road in response to a single-car fire at 12:49 p.m., according to Saadullah Sheikh, a spokesman with the L.A. County Fire Department.
The vehicle involved in the blaze was a gray Toyota Rav 4, according to observations from the scene.
According to a sheriff’s deputy on the scene, a mother and her children had been in the vehicle and exited it before first responders arrived. It is unknown how many children had been in the vehicle.
Watch Deputy Gonzalez, a spokesman with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, stated that no arson was suspected in a followup phone call with The Signal on Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters were on scene of the blaze just three minutes after the initial dispatch time and contained it to the vehicle, according to Sheikh. There was no spread to the nearby brush or residential homes.
No injuries or transports were reported and the incident was closed at 1:15 p.m., he added.
Kelly Ingram (Nishimoto) contributed to this report.
