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"You look out from the hillside and it's like a load of ants crawling out on to the sandbar," he said.

On Jan. 1, the Lachman fire was reported about 12:17 a.m. in the hillside above Pacific Palisades by a resident whose home is about two blocks from the popular Skull Rock trail.

Some ash from the undeveloped hillsides may have ended up in the basin, the underground storm drain system and the landfill, Vazquez said.

Beside the beauty spot of the blue pool at Glen Rosa, a shoot from one of the newly-planted trees stands out on the blackened hillside.

He has a played on a snowy hillside in the Alps, in an Australian desert at sunset, atop the Duomo in Milan and in Charyn Canyon of Kazakhstan.