Monday, October 27, 2008

10,000 acres burn in Valley; thousands of people flee their homes



October 22, 2008
Los Angeles, California
Photographer states :: A Los Angeles City FD helicopter makes water drop at night on flames from a 100 acre brush fire that burned through the Sepulveda Pass early Thursday morning. The flames briefly threatened Brentwood.

An accounting of what occurred. Most fires currently contained.

Sesnon Fire: 13,285 acres burned;
Marek Fire: 4,824 acres burned;
Mugu Fire: 10 acres burned;
2 fatalities;
62 structures, 47 outbuildings destroyed;