Griffith Park, Interrupted

The LAFD plays Speedy Gonzales. A car fire broke out Tuesday, October 20 at 5:27 on the east side of the LA River, opposite Griffith Park. According to Firefighter Richard Matheney, one engine responded and they knocked down the fire in 4 minutes.
As usual, I’m curious. Why a car fire? It wasn’t [...]

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I started this blog because of fire, and I’m picking it up again for the same reason. This time it’s the Station Fire. What, you expect me to just stand by while once again terrible things happen in LA because the city can’t take care of the Fire Department? I live in LA proper, and [...]

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Or, How cb Makes Every Fire a Photo Op. I mean, really, he looked like he’d been lugging the hoses himself the other night, didn’t he? Our councilman, also our fireman. Well, almost!
I got this VERY last minute notice of a meeting tonight, in my comments:
From: “LaBonge News”
Date: August 18, 2008 4:39:35 PM PDT
Subject: Griffith [...]

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You probably heard about the small fire in gp near the zoo yesterday. I couldn’t see it, but I knew something was up when helicopters started flying above our building and we started a-shaking. I live on a sort of crest, the tippy-top point between the park, the 5, and slk or downtown. I can [...]

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Cause then you’d be stuck, wouldn’t you. We don’t have any water.
The last couple weeks I wake up in a panic, and run to the window to see if by any chance dwp has started to refill the lake. The Times warned about the Big One coming, like Northridge or worse. If water pipes break [...]

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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? [...]

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