Posted on 04/12/2007 3:05:36 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 12, 2007 - Fires erupted in the hills above Los Angeles, damaging or destroying several homes, and in high desert brush Thursday as dangerous north winds swept dry Southern California, knocking out power to thousands and triggering a fatal highway pileup in a blinding sandstorm.
About 150 firefighters and water-dropping helicopters battled a 15-acre blaze in grass in the hilly Beverly Glen area above the city of Beverly Hills, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Ron Myers.
With windspeeds upward of 50 mph, fires erupted on the roofs of homes and several were damaged or destroyed but there were no specific details, Myers said.
Beverly Glen is a neighborhood of expensive homes on the south face of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Firefighters also battled a structure fire in Beverly Hills but it was not immediately known if it was related to the brush fire, which erupted about 1 p.m. Myers said.
Southern California is extremely fire-prone after a dry winter. Downtown Los Angeles has recorded less than 2½ inches of rain since July 1.
Power outages hit about 29,500 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers and 2,000 Southern California Edison customers, said spokespersons for the utilities.
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Yes, the university with its own zip code... LOL.
Glad to hear traffic was not worse than its usual awful for you...:)
“405 parking lot”=hehe.
Well, lainie, I’m sure those BH residents wasted no time contacting lawyers yesterday and, if they watched KNBC.... voila! LADWP has some ‘splainin’ to do.
I was scanning around on my new scanner, and actually heard a county worker talking about the City of Beverly Hills signing a disaster declaration so they got reimbursed by the state of CA for the fire fighting.
I was kind of giggling...after all, it wasnt exactly the Cedar Fire, or the San Diego Firestorm that went on yesterday.
Sounds like City of Beverly Hills watches that bottom line, and they know how to cover their a**.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-ex-fires13apr13-gb,0,60926.graffitiboard?coll=la-home-headlines
these are funny! guess those million dollar homes dont come with a guaranteed power source...
What’s REALLY funny is that these folks are able to get online to complain about the power outage. Never mind the fishies dying and the food spoiling, it’s more important to get online.
Batteries? A library? The office? Starbucks?
This one is good:
“No power still in Laurel Canyon - 24 hours now- Absolutely ridiculous that the power infrastructure in Los Angeles is so fragile that we will be without power for 3 days possibly. I thought we lived in the 21st century not the dark ages!
Submitted by: Tom”
And that they are home all day posting complaints!
*Shakin’ my head*
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