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Media Credit: Chris Marks Traffic backs quickly as police close down the stevens creek entrance to 85 North and 280.

Media Credit: Chris Marks Smoke plume rises from 85 above the De Anza campus.

Media Credit: Chris Marks Firefighters monitor the embers of the fire.

De Anza College students encountered major traffic delays Thursday afternoon on highways 85 and 280 caused by a brush fire at the interchange of those two freeway, less than a mile from campus.

The blaze sent up a massive white smoke plume which loomed over De Anza for an hour and a half.

It took 28 fire fighters 3 hours to extinguish the fire according to Battalion Chief Kendall Pearson of the Santa Clara County Fire Department The source the fire was unknown as of press time.

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