Viral Video: Los Angeles Wildfires in 35 Seconds
by Kara Swisher
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 3:30 AM PT
One of the great things about the Internet is the immediacy in getting relevant information, especially via video.
Such has been the case with the fires that have been raging around Los Angeles of late, riveting images of which have proliferated around the Web, posted by professionals and amateurs alike.
Having just spent a week in the area, BoomTown can attest to the surrealness of driving around the city with scary fires clearly visible on the hills nearby. While the fires are now starting to come under control, the videos of them are still burning hot.
To get a taste of it, check out this amazing real-time video of one of the fires, taken last week and posted on YouTube–it is a time-lapse format, which a lot of people are doing:
