"The is their first drive up the Angeles Crest Highway by Hal and Susan McAlister on 3 Sep 09 to join staff at the Mount Wilson Observatory. We were escorted by LA County Sheriff's deputies. We were stunned by what we saw and inattentive to keeping the little Video flip camera stable and accurately pointed. The devastation speaks for itself."

"After the big LA fires, terrain looks like a post-war moonscape: death, charred remains." --http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/16/after-the-big-la-fir.html ...