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2007 California Wildfires

‘It’s going to be a long night’

By Larry Gordon
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At John Marshall High School, where an evacuation center was set up, the smell of smoke filled the air, flames were visible over the hill and the roar of helicopters overhead was constant.

Capt. Dennis Barnes, with the emergency medical service of the Los Angeles Fire Department, said that only about 16 people had formally checked into the evacuation center by 9:45 p.m. Barnes arrived to treat injuries or those suffering from smoke inhalation. So far, no one has needed such treatment.

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Barnes suspected that many evacuees went to the houses of friends or to hotels, but added that emergency crews would stay at Marshall as long as there appears to be a need. ‘It’s going to be a long night for everybody,’ he said.

--Larry Gordon

2007 California Wildfires
Larry Gordon

Larry Gordon was a higher education writer for the Los Angeles Times and covered issues affecting colleges and universities in California and around the nation. He has been an assistant city editor and an urban affairs writer at The Times. He previously worked at the Bergen Record and Hudson Dispatch in his native New Jersey. He won a mid-career Fulbright grant to teach journalism in Bulgaria. Gordon has a bachelor’s from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He left The Times in 2015.

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