Hollywood Hills Fire Photos
I wasn’t sure how to count it as a remodeling project, unless you consider it as the Big Guy remodeling a chunk of the Hollywood Hills and Los Feliz. Nevertheless, I was up on the deck of my West Los Angeles house shooting photos of roofers putting on my new roof. (See - The answer is blowing in the wind - or at least my roof is). I looked off to the northeast and saw towering columns of greyish smoke, a sure sign in LA of a spreading brush fire. 
Just as the sun started to set, the column of smoke started to glow orange like a scene from Exodus, and then you could see pillars of fire as the blaze crested the hills facing the Los Angeles basin. I grabbed these few shots and a bit of video (i’ll try to post it in a while) as the flames raged around the Griffith Park Observatory.
This has been the dryest season in decades for SoCal. We are seeing fires in May that wouldn’t be expected until the end of summer. There’s a lot of brush up there so it looks like a pretty nasty fire season yet to come.