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    This Is Fine

    First responders saw LA’s latest fire as routine, but people watching on the internet saw a glimpse of the apocalypse.
    by Alexis C. Madrigal Dec 06, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Joe Mendez

    In video after video posted to Twitter and Snapchat early this morning, the scene near Los Angeles was the same: a stream of cars moving through the Sepulveda Pass on the 405 driving right past seams of fire, walls of flame racing up and down hillsides. The comparisons were inevitable: Mordor. The famous “This is fine” dog.

    And a question arose, too. Why are these people driving on this highway?

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