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[theweaselking]

A guardrail burns along the Angeles Crest Highway as a wildfire approaches La Canada, Calif.

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[soma77.livejournal.com]

That is eerily pretty, in such a catastrophic way.

[doug-palmer.livejournal.com]

My reaction too.

I seem to be prone to that reaction, though. I remember thinking, while driving through the Canberra 2003 bushfire, "Cool, I'm in a Hieronymus Bosch painting". (This may require calibration, I'm a rural firie and, therefore, already halfway down the road to pyromania.)

I hope that the timber isn't treated with arsenic.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Oh, they use wood for the guardrail posts there? That explains why it's burning. The ones over here pretty much invariably have steel posts.

[doug-palmer.livejournal.com]

I don't know.

It looks like wood, though, particularly where the fire has eaten in a bit and the coals are glowing (second from right). And if it was hot enough to burn metal, then the rail would be burning, too.