** EVENING UPDATE: Here are updates on arrests and photos at LA Weekly.com. Seven McDonald gives us a scene report: "Is Oakwood on fire?"
** EARLIER IN THE DAY: Do your best to suppress all your giddy destruction fantasies. From these windows in Echo Park I can see the Hollywood sign and what looks like a mean brushfire has been billowing huge puffs of gray smoke into the sky from behind the sign's ridge, causing an eerie-looking smoke trail to wash over the city. If you look at the ground it feels like someone placed an orange-brown light gel over the sun. Exciting. The fire started behind the Oakwood apartments on Barham. Now it looks like the fire is put down. What is this, year-round fire season?
* L.A. Times photo by Bryan Chan.