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Fire In The Mountains

August 30th, 2009 | Category: L.A., Pics, The Hard Stuff

The hills surrounding L.A. are literally on fire. In West Hollywood, it smells like Tanzania. That is, like burning.

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Driving to dinner at J’s uncle’s house last night, I snapped this pic with my iPhone.

The out-of-control wildfire in the Angeles National Forest has burned more than 35,000 acres and, as the wind changes, is threatening residential communities in the canyons around the forest.

The LA Times has a wonderful, if frightening, photo essay as well as continuous written updates. ABC has an interactive map (screenshot below). And Twitter, as usual, has tons of tweats: #fire.

People are also buzzing about a pic called The Light At the Top Of The Smoke Cloud.

If it’s smoky down here, I can only imagine the air up there. Sending love to all the people.

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Comments
  • PeterW
    wow, big time.
    I flew through (literally) the smoke plumes during last year's fires on my way to several corporate meetings in LA. They weren't that big though.

    It was very odd being in this huge city surrounded by natural disaster and commercial devastation (smoke-smelling people checking into our hotel with the last of their belongings in trash bags) and everybody just went about their own business.
    Over several days I sat in air conditioned board rooms and discussed contracts while outside the hills burned.
    I felt like Nero, fiddling away....eerie.
  • Thanks for the mention... ;)
  • Ron: Thanks for the picture. Keep shooting. We all need to see images like yours. Beautiful and scary.
  • Thanks for the mention... ;)
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