Found this just now:

This gives an idea of the scale of the satellite image:

This news article is sobering reading: it’s a detailed analysis of the fire so far. Two firefighters were killed this evening.
The beast has become so big that they’ve stopped measuring it in acres and are now using square miles instead. It sounds like a big fire when it’s 20 acres… it sounds like a [...]

We’ve just been to get a closer look at the fires this evening. The orange glow from the flames is clearly visible from most of Pasadena, and only four miles up the road you get really quite close to the inferno:

The photo was taken looking north-east from this point – a residental road, with some [...]

Yesterday a second wildfire started about five miles west of here. As of this morning it was burning over about 500 acres, while the first one I just posted about has reached 2000 acres. Scary stuff. View of the new fire from the freeway this morning:

The fires make for some amazing sunsets…

… and headline news [...]

An uneventful and entirely pleasant flight back to Los Angeles, with three worthwhile films: ‘In the Loop’ (hilarious), ‘International’ (a bit too convenient in places) and ‘Fired Up’ (great fun).
My driving licence has arrived, somewhat sooner than they had said it would. Now I can really get into trouble for any driving misdemeanours!

We visited Fresh [...]