This year, it's a 140,150 acre fire blazing in the San Gabriel wilderness. It's burned through the area occupied by Camp Hi-Hill, the Long Beach Unified School District's outdoor science camp in the Angeles National Forest (no students were at the camp--perhaps the one positive side to rampant budget cuts). Pasadena and Sierra Madre have been put on alert. So far, the blaze has killed two LA County firefighters, destroyed 64 homes, three commercial buildings and 49 outbuildings. It's cost a bankrupt state $27 million to battle.
But I have to admit, from a safe distance, there's a certain beauty to it...
I know, we need a tripod...
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