Two teenagers from Illinois set the Hollywood Hills on fire today. The fire, which started near Burbank, came dangerously close to the famous Hollywood Sign, but luckily there were no injuries or major damage.
Metroblogging Los Angeles is all over the story with some great coverage and there are a ton of photos already up on Flickr, including some amazing HDR photos by Dave Bullock.
UPDATE: Micki Krimmel went up on her roof and shot some video of the fire.
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That second picture reminds me of standing watch at 6 am watching the San Diego fires… It looked like the flames of hell haha
It’s eerily beautiful, did the kids have a reason for doing it or was it just a stupid teenage prank?
Look at this Nostradamus quantrain!
The year that the Gaels may speak their tongue
Two young men with idle hands
Shall cause darkness throughout the sky
Fire approaches the great choking city
What was the point of this exactly other than them being crazy arsonists? I mean, why there?
It’s not April Fools Day yet. Isn’t it a little early to be saying the Hollywood Hills are ablaze?
If they manage to torch the sign, they’ve won; right?
1. don’t you think if this was real that it would be making major news headlines and 2. look at the second photo, no smoke in the sky when you look up through that round thing just an april fools joke
Oh no, not the Hollywood sign! That great symbol of narcissism and greed and bad movies and bad television and dimwitted superficiality. Not that! Oh my god, it’s, it’s, it’s worse than FLAG burning! Another intrinsically meaningless that hysterical fools like to symbolize and claim as important. Why it’s as bad as BLASPHEMY! Using the lord’s name in vain! (Of course you can make fun of other people’s religions, especially those rag heads who hate us for our freedom anyhow.) Life imprisonment is too good for those fire starting teens. DEATH to the blaspemors! DEATH!
bloggers vs hollywood
usa vs hollywood
the_world vs hollywood
fire vs hollywood
shieet theres nothing that can stop hollywood.
“Burn, Hollywood, burn!”
– Public Enemy
Hahah “is it real” … yes it is real… and the sign didn’t burn.
well I just wanted to say that this is NOT a hoax – I go to USC and I saw the smoke yesterday and went online to find out what it was all about —– it IS real.
Frankly the whole story is overplayed. The only reason these two teens are being postered on television is because they are Jewish. Typical left-weaning anti-semitic Californians are joining into the witch-hunt for these too adolescents.
good for those kids. the should receive some sort of medal.
i hope that babylon in the desert burns to the ground and its citizens fall into the ocean.
This is their revenge for using DRM. Hollywood can burn (literally) for pushing evil DRM technology
CNN now has the story.
The 4th photo looks like a painting. I know it’s not suppose to be beautiful but it’s like a painting from the future.
I agree the 4th picture does look like cgi that is pretty amazing.
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