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For those of you who aren't in LA, and haven't heard about the fire here:
Griffith Park Fire Now 40 Percent Contained
600 Acres Scorched, 300 Residents Evacuated Tuesday
LOS ANGELES Hundreds of firefighters worked Wednesday to contain a wildfire that scorched more than 600 acres of brush in the Hollywood Hills and Los Feliz area and prompted the evacuation of some 300 people.
The fire was 40 percent contained Wednesday morning, according to Ron Myers of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
City Councilman Tom LaBonge said the Griffith Park Fire was the city's worst since the Bel Air fire of 1961.
The blaze broke out about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday just east of the Hollywood sign and quickly raced into the thick brush, fanned by winds of roughly 10 miles per hour amid bone-dry conditions and high temperatures.
For more photos click here.
For those of you who don't know much about LA/Griffith Park here's a a brief rundown. Griffith park is home to things like the Hollywood Sign, an amazing garden called Dante's Peak, the Greek Theatre, the Griffith Observatory (featured prominently in Rebel Without a Cause), the LA Zoo, two golf courses, and the Autry Museum. Angelenos use it to run, hike, golf, walk their dogs, and a bazillion other things. There's a beautiful carosel from 1926. People picnic there all the time. It's roughly 4200 acres, and the second largest park in California.
And it's completely surrounded by neighborhoods. Completely. That makes the liklihood of it jumping to the city very, very high.
I have visions in my head of the great London fire of 1666.... LA would go up like a box of matches.
Griffith Park Fire Now 40 Percent Contained
600 Acres Scorched, 300 Residents Evacuated Tuesday
LOS ANGELES Hundreds of firefighters worked Wednesday to contain a wildfire that scorched more than 600 acres of brush in the Hollywood Hills and Los Feliz area and prompted the evacuation of some 300 people.
The fire was 40 percent contained Wednesday morning, according to Ron Myers of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
City Councilman Tom LaBonge said the Griffith Park Fire was the city's worst since the Bel Air fire of 1961.
The blaze broke out about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday just east of the Hollywood sign and quickly raced into the thick brush, fanned by winds of roughly 10 miles per hour amid bone-dry conditions and high temperatures.
For more photos click here.
For those of you who don't know much about LA/Griffith Park here's a a brief rundown. Griffith park is home to things like the Hollywood Sign, an amazing garden called Dante's Peak, the Greek Theatre, the Griffith Observatory (featured prominently in Rebel Without a Cause), the LA Zoo, two golf courses, and the Autry Museum. Angelenos use it to run, hike, golf, walk their dogs, and a bazillion other things. There's a beautiful carosel from 1926. People picnic there all the time. It's roughly 4200 acres, and the second largest park in California.
And it's completely surrounded by neighborhoods. Completely. That makes the liklihood of it jumping to the city very, very high.
I have visions in my head of the great London fire of 1666.... LA would go up like a box of matches.