I did hear an older firefighter this morning say it was “an historic fire” ... Once in a lifetime. He said because of intensity, large area covered.
I turned south off the 101 Hollywood Fwy this morning and my jaw dropped. I saw the fire from Temple all the way down to LA Live ...STaples Center where the Lakers play. I was off in the size but it seemed gargantuan.
Im going to start a search for the most impressive photos of same.
There is a fire event called a BLEVE (boiling liquid, expanding gas explosion) and the first time it was used to describe a fire event was for a 1959 fire on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Mo just a few blocks off state line. It was a monster fire and when the gas cloud exploded it killed the most fire fighters in KC history.
It was few blocks from my Dad’s office and I remember it vividly as I was watching it on live TV when it blew up. A decade later I built a new building right on the site and it still had boiled down asphalt underground.