Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Forest Fire on Jul 13th, 2007
I got some interesting emails from a reader who was INSIDE the park the night of the fire. He writes: I was up in the area around Dante’s View from around 7 – 8 pm on the day the fire broke out and saw Dante’s View go up in flames. What struck me is that [...]
Posted in Important Stuff, Meetings as Theatre on Jul 12th, 2007
The fire was long over, but the tree-cutting continued. I was quite upset. I just couldn’t accept that the best thing for a park that had lost thousands of trees, would be to tear out 1000 more trees. Not to mention the growing erosion problem. And I felt like a wimp because I hadn’t crossed [...]
Posted in As Lovely as a Tree on Jul 11th, 2007
You will recall, faithful readers, that at my last nh meeting, I heard a very disturbing rumor: that 900 additional trees had been removed after the fire. These were not burned trees. They were just chopped down. Now Vicky Israel, Griffith Park Manager at the time, had said that the plan was to fell about [...]
Posted in Fire Department 101 on Jul 6th, 2007
Of course I take all my wonderful commenters equally seriously, but I was puzzled and concerned with what commenter Scott said the other day: The brush patrols and Hummers dont even qualify as a type 4 apparatus. The engines that were called from Downtown, Hollywood, S. Central did they even meet OES type 1 status? [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2007
Some LA residents might be surprised to find out that you can get the phone number of any department or personnel in the city, or be directed towards the department who can help you, by just dialing 311. In theory, anyhow. I know I heard this about four times before I believed it or tried [...]
