LA is kind of on fire

"wizkashifa" (wizkashifa)
12/08/2014 at 05:16 • Filed to: LA Fire

Updating. Mostly links. Stay safe opponauts!

Block of 900 W Temple, in LA. Mostly luxury condos, that are under development. Cause unknown. NO CURRENT INJURIES!

Scanner suggests roads will reopen at 4am PDT. Unconfirmed reports of 20% containment.

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Drive-by of fire videos

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Publications

KTLA: LA local news

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Pictures

For those that are curious, here's the building prefire.

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Looks like partial containment to me!

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DISCUSSION (25)

JustWaitingForAMate > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 05:35

Holy fuckshit that's huge.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 05:38

Gas main explode?

wizkashifa > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
12/08/2014 at 05:43

Currently the cause is unknown. Will update when I do.

McMike > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 05:44

Here's the reported location of the source (Google StreetView)

http://goo.gl/maps/iVxEV

wizkashifa > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 05:45

I apologize for the formatting. I was in bed watching Netflix when I saw the news alert. If someone could resize header to the right width I'd be your Kinja-bae forever.

PyramidHat > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 05:50

Holy shit. If this was caused by rioters, they may have opened a whole 'nother ball of fish (Metaphors are not my strong suit). When there's fire damage over a certain dollar amount (I want to say $2MM, but I can't rightly remember), the ATF gets involved.

wizkashifa > McMike
12/08/2014 at 05:52

Thanks! I grabbed a screen shot earlier, reminder to post.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 05:55

Huh, looking at the photo of the highway (I5?) being blocked by a wall of fire it does suggest that this is intentional so...

Sanettika > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 06:00

Wow, that's a massive fire. Glad to hear no one has been hurt so far. Hopefully they can get it under control before the Monday morning traffic sets in, that's going to be a headache and a half for people who live there.

kanadanmajava1 > wizkashifa
12/08/2014 at 06:04

Weird that a fire can escalate into that level in such place. I think that fire department wouldn't have any trouble reaching the place very quickly. I also think that a fire just besides a big freeway would be immediately reported in any time of night.