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LA Times Creates Google Map for California Fire Storm ‘07

Updated links to media/official/citizen coverage of the fires below. I’ve messed with numerous mapping applications — namely Mapbuilder and Platial and none are as effective, easy to maintain / update and share as this map tracking the ongoing fires in Southern California. Nice one, Times. Map Updated 10/29 View Larger Map For more fire coverage: CBS2/KCAL9 has multiple live [...]
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Smilin’ With Brian Humphrey While LA Burns

LAFD blogger Brian Humphrey was lucky to have the day off today as a fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills. Instead he was at the OJR Conference at USC Annenberg, as was I. Soon after the fire broke out, though we couldn’t see it from SC, David Markland and myself (he was also at [...]
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Pioneertown Burning

Pioneertown, created out of high desert dust as an on-location Western movie town for the likes of Gene Autry and the Cisco Kid in the 1940s, is under siege! The home of the Sunday afternoon shootout reenactment, complete with “Amazing Grace” may never be the same. The fire blazes on with minimal containment — and [...]
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