bean

Griffith Park burned tonight.

SGLA was abuzz. It was certainly thrilling, if totally surreal as well. Baudot and the coincidentally named GarageDelFuego had to evacuate and spent some time with me and Shalome on the roof of the Arclight theater parking garage taking photos and watching the flames shoot up over the hills behind the observatory, before coming back over to our place, where we drank a couple beers and watched the glow over the hills from our roof.

This is not one of our photos, but a photo of the Griffith Observatory from a blog that was talking about the fire:


Here's one of mine from early in the evening, shortly after we got to the Arclight parking garage's roof:


These are a few more of mine (click for larger versions, in which you can see the observatory in the background, and Hollywood in the foreground):



The bright white light off to the right is a fire helicopter with its spotlight on. There were, at times, two or three helicopters weaving in and out of the smoke with their spotlights on. I think they were looking for evidence of hot spots ahead of the fire line.

Shalome tells me this is the gardens and trail bridge at Dante's View going up in flames, though we didn't know it at the time.



The flames died down a few hours ago, anyhow. Hopefully it doesn't flare up again, like it did this evening after everyone thought it was under control and almost out.

What a crazy night.

bean!