The games are 5 days off. Those fires will have burned themselves out by then. Too many other recent San Gabriel mountain fires for there to be enough tinder to keep burning for much longer. Might move east away from the area -- not much to the west left to burn. That area already went up in smoke a few years ago. Thankfully there's no Santa Anna wind conditions now. Poor air quality shouldn't remain a problem for more than a couple more days. It's gonna be a trip driving around in the mountains there for a while. Looking like the planet Mars with no green left for miles in every direction.
Unfortunatly, the fire isn't going to go out any time soon, it has already burned 110,000 acres and will need over 300 miles of fire line to be constructed to contain it, if it doesn't grow another inch.
I'm going to toot my own horn here just a bit, so please excuse me if I come across as being a know- it- all, that's not my intent. I have been a fire fighter for 28 years with L.A. County F.D., lived in La Canada, 4 miles from the Rose Bowl for 12 years, am now stationed in Malibu and live in S.B.
When a fire get's to be this size, it doesn't get extinguished in a day or two or three. The good news is, is it's cooler today with some high cloud cover and no wind. Also, the hurricane down in Cabo San Lucas should track up the Baja penensula and we should get some reminants of the storm by Friday/Saturday. What could happen with this expected weather change, no one really knows just yet, as the winds associated with this event will be pushing up from the south and blow the smoke north and away from the Rose Bowl. On the other hand, if the winds don't show up, the cloud cover could act as a lid, keeping the smoke from rising into the upper atmosphere. And that would not be good news for the game on Saturday.