Is Paris Burning?

How typical that while we were at lunch with no cell phone or camera, Los Angeles would burn to the ground. Well, maybe not all of Los Angeles, but Hollywood Hills, certainly. And maybe not to the ground. And actually it was more like a Hollywood hill. But believe it when we say there was enough white, gray, and yellow smoke, leaping up from licking flames and billowing gloriously into the sky and nearly blotting out the sun, to give tourists and shop owners alike along Hollywood Boulevard camera-phone stories for days. Fortunately, WOW operates out of a virtual high-rise building – soaring four stories! – and when we returned from lunch we found Thairin Smothers, our very own Jimmy Olsen, camera slung around his neck, on our rooftop observatory. (Photo: Thairin Smothers)