Smoke & LAPD

The two are unrelated, so far as I know.

Another large fire broke out this morning, 25+ miles north of us up by Castaic and Lake Hughes. Again, we’re safe, but this time the winds, still blowing STRONG from the north, are blowing the smoke over us. Not chokingly thick, no ash falling, just brown clouds overhead. (The two bars of white lights are not the UFO mothership come to take me away and probe me, more’s the pity. I would love to get away… Nope, reflections from my office ceiling lights, that’s all. The horizontal streaks are the dirt and bird shit that’s been deposited and streaked everywhere with the few minutes of light showers we had two months ago.)

I went outside and walked to the corner to get a different view without the glare and reflections off the office window glass. In addition to the brown clouds off on the left, on the other side of the street on the left the entire block is the new training facility and corporate headquarters for the LA Rams.

Then, about 4:15, we started getting buzzed by an LAPD helicopter. He was orbiting above, barely clearing the 20-ish story office buildings across the street, and in a TIGHT circle. (Dodging more alien motherships, obviously!)

The problem was directly across the street from us, where there were 6+ LAPD cruisers with someone pulled over in the parking lot outside of the BofA branch and Ruth’s Chris Steak House there. Lots of lights, sirens, a fire truck and ambulance showed up, and the police were pulling folks from a car, putting them on the ground, and handcuffing them.

Tough to get finished up and out the door at the end of the day when there’s a free show going on outside!