You play by the rules or you don't play at all. No one in Los Angeles tells you what the rules exactly are. Because they shift, like the path of fire in a September wind. Life on the fault line tells us who will be considered beautiful, who will be cherished and who will not. Yesterday there was a first-stage smog alert in the San Fernando Valley.
Fire inspectors are worried.
It is arson, because this fire was definitely set. It has already eaten away several hundred acres. No dwellings are threatened, yet. Ten aftershocks hit the West Valley this week. There are concerns for drought measures if rain doesn't come soon.