Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Forest Fire on Aug 16th, 2008
This is the 3rd fire in gp near the zoo, in a month. And now arson is suspected, writes Channel2. There is nothing in the LAFD blog yet about it. Firefighters say they have detected as many as five separate ignition points as they battle a series of brush fires in Griffith Park Saturday, the [...]
Posted in Forest Fire, From beyond the grave on Aug 5th, 2008
lao found a fascinating article in the Ventura County Star today. Firefighters are monitoring a patch of land north of Fillmore where the ground climbed to 812 degrees on Friday for unknown reasons. Possible theories include that natural hydrocarbons such as oil or gas are burning deep in the earth. But nobody knows for sure [...]
Posted in Forest Fire on Oct 28th, 2007
Sometimes I write a post, but I don’t publish it. I guess I’m not a run-to-win blogger. I’ve had a lot of new visitors lately, looking for news about fires in general, or maybe confusing Griffith Park with San Diego. (And in spite of the fact that I seem to have disappeared from Technorati. Thanks, [...]
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 Creatures, Forest Fire on Jun 15th, 2007
This is the question that has been on my mind since the first hour of the fire. All day and all night, neighbors stood out on the deck watching it, and as it grew later, we realized it wasn’t going to stop that night, and some of us even wondered if we’d have to evacuate, [...]
Posted in Forest Fire, Important Stuff, Meetings as Theatre on Jun 14th, 2007
I can understand why homeowners have been nervous nellies about pointing fingers at the fire department, really I can. Who needs firemen most? Desperate housewives and homeowners. But the LA Fire Department did such a craptacular job in the recent Griffith Park fire that maybe it’s time for someone to point a finger. So I [...]
