Firefighters clear burned and unburned brush from a hillside above Portola Drive after a wildfire broke out in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles Tuesday, June 12, 2018.

The City Council approved the pilot program at a May 4 meeting for a total cost of $12,990, which will include use of a tractor with a brush-cutter and hand crews on the 40-acre site.

A Santa Barbara County Fire Department hand crew spent much of Monday clearing brush in the Burton Mesa preserve, but there was something special about the work they were doing.