LA Fire Update - Idiots Abound

Fire photo courtesy our rocket scientists at NASA


According to this AP report on Yahoo News

the big fire may have been set by some idiot

Officials are still trying to figure out what set off the blaze in the Angeles National Forest that had burned nearly 219 square miles, or 140,150 acres, by early Wednesday. Deputy incident commander Carlton Joseph said Wednesday that the fire was human-caused, but it's not known specifically how it was started or whether it was accidental or arson.

Yikes

Around Town - Fire Season In Full Force

Here are the photos that I just took of the view from West Los Angeles of the smoke from the massive out of control fire just east of LA.

There are huge fires all over the State.

It's ugly out there.

Hillside Horror - Fire Season Begins

Every so often when I consider feeling sorry for myself because I don't have a architecturally modernist house in the hills above Santa Barbara I remind myself that living in the hills in Southern California can be like living on the edge of a volcano.

photos from the LA Times

Santa Ana Season

I love to wake up in the morning at admire the clear view when there are Santa Ana winds. From my window, on Santa Ana days, I can see the high rises on the Wilshire Corridor to Century City to Downtown Los Angeles to the mountains beyond.

Of course when my view is this clear it means that somewhere else in Southern California, someone else is looking at a view something like this.


Question: Seriously, does some part of Porter Ranch burn every year?