Fire Pictures from Los Angeles

Traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind driven brush fire in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,000-acre wildfire, forcing the closure of a major freeway during rush hour and burning mobile homes and industrial buildings. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

A firefighter battles a blaze in a house ignited by flames from a fast moving brush fire in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

Firefighters attempt to protect a home from burning, right, not seen in photo, while another firefighter, rear right, hoses down the remains of a home near Porter Ranch in Los Angeles on Monday Oct. 13,2008. Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods on the edges of the San Fernando Valley on Monday, killing one person, destroying several dozen mobile homes and forcing frantic evacuations. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)

A home burns, ignited by flames from a fast moving brush fire in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

A firefighter battles flames at a mobile home park early Monday morning, Oct. 13, 2008, north of Los Angeles after intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California and whipped up a 3,700-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)

A wall of smoke rises from a fire in the Porter Ranch area that prompted the evacuation of Browns Canyon Road and Oat Mountain Motorway near Chatsworth. (Mel Melcon /Los Angeles Times / October 13, 2008)

Fires, like this, were pretty much unheard of in the L.A. area before 1980. There seems to be a lot more of them and much larger. And, many more, since, have been set by arsonists.

And, of course, the population of the area has increased greatly, as, well, as, more building in areas where no building should have ever been allowed.

It's a sad reality of the people we have become.

Pictures from:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gwSSrT7-LciDlr1tYmyE9e19oX9QD93Q7JLO0
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-wildfires1014,0,394359.story?page=2
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