A moment outside

A short break from the work day today — up near the Canyon entrance to Griffith Park. Amazing, the contrast from the rest of Freewayland.

Dreary Friday, flourescent lighting

More rain today. It came dripping through Upper Grand Avenue by the parking structure entrance. This corner was lit up like a stage set — all artificial lighting below.

Above, afternoon, Westwood.

Back on track

On the way into downtown Friday morning, I noticed a strange cloud hovering above the horizon.

I figured it had to be from a fire, but not until I crossed over the 5 did I spot the source: some type of warehouse building near the Metro tracks, billowing black smoke. I wondered if my fellow freeway drivers were noticing or curious about this. But I suppose you can’t spend much time gawking when you’re going 60 m.p.h.

I scoured the internet for details later in the day. Not even KCAL had any mention, which made me begin to doubt anything had even happened (terrible how media coverage functions in society). Though I suppose someone must have been Tweeting about it… like the Fire Department. I eventually found an alert on their website:

*UPDATE: 1630 N Main St* KNOCKDOWN: 39 FF’s extinguished (transformers?) fire in 23 min; No injury; No evac; Cause & media contact = LADWP – Brian Humphrey###

Thirty-nine L.A. city firefighters used L.A. city water to extinguish a blaze caused by L.A. city power? Excellent work, guys.