Firefighters are working to put out a half-acre grass fire in Griffith Park, burning on a slope. The fire was reported around 1 p.m., at Glendower Avenue and Nottingham Avenue on a rural hillside. Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach.

Griffith Park is home to such L.A. landmarks as Griffith Observatory, the Greek Theatre, the Los Angeles Zoo and the Hollywood Sign. It also contains the Travel Town Museum as well as a merry-go-round.

Griffith Park and other Los Angeles-area parks were closed Monday due to the increased risk of wildfires to start the week in Southern California. Due to red flag warnings in place Monday through part of Tuesday,