A fire in the hills behind Burbank filled the entire valley with smoke and a strange over-cooked-barbecue stink...

update: I didn't realize the fire behind IKEA wasn't an isolated event, several fires have been raging in the L.A. area since Wednesday afternoon... here's a clip from yahoo news:

Thick smoke hung over much of Los Angeles on Thursday as a wildfire burned out of control in the Southern California foothills, threatening upscale suburban neighborhoods as firefighters struggled to keep the flames from racing to the sea.

"We didn't come to work this morning, we came to war," Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said.

Officials conceded that while the improved weather had slowed the progress of the blaze, some 3,000 firefighters were nowhere close to containing it amid 100-degree F (38-degree Celsius) temperatures at the end of Southern California's notorious fire season.

Fire crews responded quickly when another brush fire was spotted in the hills near the heavily populated Los Angeles suburb of Burbank.

"We are aggressively trying to contain this thing before it starts because of the weather conditions," Burbank Fire Lt. David Gabriel said.

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