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 understand why helicopters don’t want to waste fuel going higher than they need to, but this does give us, below, a rather intimate relationship with the bottoms of these flying things… Photo: Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times The news media online, mostly TV stations at first, but including Daily News (!) all had the…

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 – and they will- do ya THINK we might need a big source of available water? Sierra Madre fire from my kitchen window. And how about that rain we’ve been getting, huh? Not. We’re ONE WEEK AWAY from when we had the gp fire last year. (the reason I started this blog)!! Hello, fire…

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? Were they equipped and trained to make an offensive attack using progressive hose lays, can the LAFD firefighters support dozers/crew lines for firing operations. Were fixed wing aircraft used on initial attack to “:paint” the area ahead of the fire with fire retardant? It wasn’t until the following morning that CDF S-2 air attack crews…