The fire spread quickly from a vacant field of sagebrush up a ridge to homes.
The Los Angeles Police Department helicopter climbed over a ridge of homes surrounding the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club's golf course and dipped down over a fairway, its blades churning as it hovered above the grass.
Perched on a high ridge, the home site overlooks the remaining 260-plus acres divided into two parcels, which are home to elk, bear, mule deer, dove, partridge and grouse.
The ridge was home to a popular hotel and other relatively well-built structures that were destroyed.
There was the added bonus of the vast nature preserve of the Sierra Crestellina, with its steep Jurassic limestone ridge, and home to wild boars, large horned muflons, and foxes.
As the youngest waitress at a restaurant near her Cream Ridge, N.J., home, she has a net income of $1,280 a month, she says, and estimated expenses of $2,500.
Their lights were off at that hour, and I could just make out their shapes as I drove; up on the ridges, new homes glowed with yard lights and long driveways, their owners indifferent to weather.
An important recreation resource located within 10 mile of a population corridor of over 1.5 million people, the ridge is home to four long-distance hiking trails and over a dozen parks and recreation areas including several state and nationally recognized historic sites.
Bouvetøya (54°25' S 3°21' E), situated on the Atlantic-Indian Ridge is home to a small elephant seal colony that is more likely to utilize regions within the Weddell Sea compared to more distant colonies at for instance South Georgia or the Prince Edward Islands.
Ms. Low's parents said in an interview in their ridge-top home today that they had been overwhelmed by their community's outpouring of support.
Plant resources presently utilized by local farmers on the strand plain are Melaleuca cajuputi forests on both the peaty backswamps and the beach ridges, and home gardens of tropical fruit trees around settlements.
