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    A reader was inside the park the night of the fire

    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 nobody but me was up there. Despite the fire roads up Mt. Hollywood and the fancy new water system in the park, not a single fireman was up there poring water down on the flames. I’m no expert, but it looked to me like the fire there could easily have been beaten down with a…