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Web Video, Photos Show Fire in Los Angeles Park

The Los Angeles Fire Department is battling a huge blaze in the city's Griffith Park.

Here is a Boing Boing posting from regular Day to Day contributor Xeni Jardin that provides an hour-by-hour description of the fire's progression last night, along with photos and videos. Also, here are some shots of the fire taken by LA resident David Deusner and posted on the Picasa Web Albums site, along with an entire page of fire photos from the flickr.com site.

YouTube has more than 20 videos, including this one shot yesterday afternoon -- you'll find links to other videos on the righthand side of the page. (As one comment to the posting reads, "I get home from work; Griffith Park is on fire. On YouTube, one guy on the street with a camcorder (if not a tripod) gives me a better sense of where the fire is than all the TV stations and their endless, repetitious helicopter shots. Welcome to the 21st Century.")

The Los Angeles Daily News reports that several possible causes of the fire are under investigation.

Finally, here is a link to the last major Griffith Park fire, which occurred on Oct. 3, 1933, and killed 29 people.

9:34 AM ET | 05- 9-2007 | permalink

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