Believe me - pretty high on the list of things one doesn't want to see from one's living room window - 728 feet away, according to Citizen - is a plume of rising smoke. On the other hand, what one is pleased to see is one of the two LAFD helicopters circling round and dropping water on it. Indeed, it was the sound of a crazily low and loud helicopter flying at speed across our back yard to get to it that alerted me to the fact that this wasn't actually a peaceful sunny morning, and that once again it's faintly scary living with a lot of combustible material behind us. Admittedly, it's February, and we've had some rain, but still.
The LAFD reported that "the fire may have spread from a palm tree," but off the trails, palm trees don't generally spontaneously combust. We can't be talking Moses and the burning bush, here. So it was, indeed, mildly unsettling, although the LAFD (who apparently despatched 25 units in our direction!) were impressive.
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