This single flume of dark smoke rising out of the flats out a little farther below the big hill that is the Palos Verdes peninsula. Meanwhile, farther off to the north and west up in the mountain canyons, brushfires! Three that I was able to see. One spot east of the freeway, one spot deeper within the canyons to the west of the freeway. We saw two different kinds of water drops - helicopter and airplane - in what locals were saying was Rustic Canyon and the Will Rogers area and the Mandeville Canyon area. There was a third one, I think, just inside the Valley end of the Sepulveda Pass - LOTS of thick light-brown smoke in this one localized area but I couldn't see any fire.
And it's hot here. Been hot for awhile and dry, hasn't rained in months except for something quick and flukey a couple of weeks or so ago. So there's lots of good rich fire food in the hills all over L.A.
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