LAFD photoIt's true what they say in the journalism biz about news being anything that happens to or near an editor. I happened to be driving in Northridge yesterday when the sky filled with clouds of thick black smoke rising from the industrial area west of Reseda Boulevard. Turns out it was a cabinet shop on fire and required a major call-out of city firefighters (and an assistant chief with the good fortune to be named Roderick Garcia.) Brian Humphrey explains it all, with Flickr pics, on the LAFD News and Information blog. Meanwhile, three people were hurt in explosions and fire at a Carson paint factory, but then I wasn't there.

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