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    Does anybody have more info on the enormous fire in the Hollywood Hills today?? I'm sitting around this afternoon and I start smelling smoke... next thing I know, my apartment is hazy, my asthma and allergies start acting up, the cat is freaking out, and my eyes are watering. I go to meet K and a friend for lunch, and the whole sky is black and orange. We watched the news coverage while we ate, and evidently there was some worry for awhile that the Hollywood sign would burn!

    Fortunately they were able to get the fire down and by the time we headed home from lunch, the smoke in the sky was white instead of black and they were saying they had it under control. It was JUST on the other side of the hill from my apartment. K and I were calling his parents in Redondo to see about staying down there tonight, it was that close!

    But I'm wondering how it started this time of year. There are always fires around the Valley at the end of the summer, but in March? Just after the rain? What's going on?

    And on top of all that, the pad thai didn't agree with me and I've had tons of intestinal drama all afternoon... well, at least my home isn't on fire, and my new corset arrived from Guenevere, and my movie is officially finished except for the music. Now I just have to get off my ass and clean this damn house. I've been meaning to do it all day but when there was the risk of fire, well, I just couldn't bring myself to clean!

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    Ahhh, gotta love those days! Can we see pics of your corset, pretty please??

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    I will definitely post pics once I have washed my hair and put some makeup on! Right now I look like ass and I'm NOT taking pics of anything... besides, I'm bloated from all the intestinal trouble too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    But I'm wondering how it started this time of year. There are always fires around the Valley at the end of the summer, but in March? Just after the rain? What's going on?
    Rain? What rain?

    I think that's the problem--there's been hardly any rain this year. We're in for a real bad fire season, I think...

    Stay safe, Yek!
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    There's been SOME... but yeah, it's not even fire season yet and I do agree it's gonna be a bad one. Usually it's off somewhere in the Valley so I haven't worried about it much. I was disconcerted to have it so close to home. Technically I'm in the Hollywood Hills myself, even though we're at the very bottom of the hill, so I'm really hoping they get that fire out completely and that there won't be another one.

    My asthma is bugging me a bit but other than that no problems. I don't think we'll go to Redondo after all, but I'm glad for my inhaler.

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    Apparently it was some little bastards from my state

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    Little assholes. Throw the book at 'em.

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    Last year, or maybe the year before, we had one fire started deliberately by a mentally ill guy who wanted to back to prison. It burned thousands of acres before they got it out. He got his wish.

    A couple weeks after that, another fire was started by some older teenagers playing "war" and using firecrackers for cannon and bomb effects. These guys got off with a slap on the hand because they were "good, religious kids" (in Utah, that means they were LDS) who had never been in trouble before. Thosands of acres more.

    Last year, another fire started by kids making a warming fire while they were sitting around up in the foothills. I think they got off, too.

    Every time I go hiking, I find cigarette butts inches away from dry grass and twigs. I'm suprised we don't have more fires.

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