Fires

On the internet, you can find high-resolution pictures of the wildfires in southern California. For those with high bandwidth, this video segment of a helicopter view at 6:00 a.m. this morning, broadcast on a SoCal TV station, is electrifying.

And there's a live video feed from KCBS-TV, on which you can sometimes hear the helicopter pilot laconically talking to his editor or dispatcher. I heard him say, "Yeah, man, I thought this thing was gonna be lying down by now, jeez!... (pause)... Yeah, ha ha! There is no good news!" Corrected link: Go to the KCBS site and click onthe "Live Webcast" link.