Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Fire from Gardena

Not that this compares to the footage shot by TV cameras, but here's the incredible smoke plume/bank as seen from Western Avenue in Gardena. That's about thirty miles, going straight north.

Pretty impressive, The Palos Verdes fire could not be seen from points only 2-3 miles away, because of the canyons and hills.

But I guess the real story is that we're breathing all this gunk, one way or the other. Nothing can be done about that.

2 comments:

LAkompany said...

The photographer is standing on the west side of Western Avenue, south of Redondo Beach Boulevard in my old home town of Gardena. I think I went to that Sizzler when I was a kid.

Vickey Kall said...

Good call! And there was a bingo game going on in the VFW hall on the southwest corner too.
Thank you for all your kind comments--