I wake to sirens at 5:45, and helicopters overhead about 15 minutes later.

[Shakespeare]

Turned on Channel 7 to see what the heck was going on, and find out that most of the NW block of Hollywood/Vine is on fire:





http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=6112580

[Bucky]

1. How close to that are you?

And more importantly... do you have an alibi, pally?

[Shakespeare]

2. It's a few blocks down the street from me.

Looks like a grease fire in the kitchen at Basque (restaurant) is what started the whole thing.

[KitchenWitch]

3. I saw that this morning.

How is your air quality?

Stay safe.

[Shakespeare]

4. Onshore flow this morning, so everything blew east of me.

I was surprised that I couldn't even smell the smoke, as close as it was. I think they finally got it all put out within the last hour.