Ya. '04 with the 3 that met and made one ginormous fire. I have a feeling that this fire season is going to be as bad, if not worse than then.

Dallas, on the other hand is under water. It's been pouring every night. I have asked my co-worker to send us the storm.

I saw the smoke yesterday & thought 'well I guess it's officially summer'. The last time I was at the GP Observatory was about 7 years ago. A former co-worker/former friend wanted to go there to take pictures of the building after seeing it in a remake of House On Haunted Hill. About two years ago iSm and I were in the area and tried to go to the Observatory but it was still closed. Eventually I would like to go there again (if it doesn't burn down).

According to this story, the fire is 50% contained as of about noon today. Only one home has sustained minor damage - no other structures are affected.

Although my hats off for idiotic statement of the day:
Let's see: The 1961 Bel Air fire burned 6,090 acres and destroyed 484 homes and 21 other buildings. So far the Griffith Park Fire has burned 600 acres and slightly damaged one home. Hmm... grandstanding much?

Yeah it was crazy yesterday leaving work, driving up Vermont... and seeing flames all over the side of the hill. I'm glad nobody was hurt -- but holy geebus the traffic sucked donkey balls through a straw this morning. I had to get to court, and actually needed to get off the freeway and take the Metro downtown, it was going so slow.

They're saying it's the worst since then, which is a fact. What they're trying to get across is that Griffith Park hasn't seen a fire this bad in 45 years, which is a pretty big deal.

Worse than the one about 10 years ago that burnt down the canteen at Camp Hollywoodland? (And they replaced it with a modernistic, non-campy P.O.S. of a building!)

By referencing the devastating Bel Air Fire (of which Griffith Park was only a very minor and mostly irrelevant part of), he is attempting to draw a parallel to that fire. Other than the fact there are flames in Griffith Park, this is absolutely no comparison. No one has lost their home and and all of their possessions because of this fire. The analogy is faulty. It is like saying that DCA is the greatest amusement park in Anaheim since Disneyland. Sure; it is factually true, but a very misleading statement (I am operating on the premise that DCA basically sucks).

I saw the statement as someone trying to garner votes by taking advantage of this fire. And I also believe that the impact of this fire is being blown WAY out of proportion. No lives have been lost, no one has been in true danger (besides the people fighting it - firefighting is a dangerous profession), and no homes have been lost.

Griffith Park has experienced many brush fires in the past 45 years (as recently as March 2007 - less than two months ago). While this fire was started by man, brush fires are a normal and necessary part of nature. It helps promote growth by clearing out dead materials.

The gangs that infest the park and the people who litter the park are a far greater danger to the park and to the city than this fire.

Eek! Now Catalina is on fire!
 

Story and awesome (but scary) photos here.

Sheesh, I hope people get away safely and don't lose their homes and the historic buildings.

Looks like this fire season is starting off to be a bad one. :(

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I wish I had witnessed this. There was a LOT of air noise in Long Beach last night. I was wondering what was going on.