Los Angeles Area Fire Map: La Cañada Flintridge, Altadena, Glendale, La Crescenta, Pasadena, Acton

Los Angeles Times ^ | 12 p.m., 8/30/09: | Rong-Gong Lin II

[kellynla]

Firefighters' goal: Keep the fire within the blue line. The northern flank is nearing the Acton area, prompting evacuations along Highway 14. The fire is two miles from Mt. Wilson, site of communications towers and an observatory. To the southwest, flames are still spreading above the foothills above the 210. La Crescenta and La Cañada Flintridge expands evacuation areas.

[kellynla]

Link to interactive map:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-la-fire-map-html,0,7464337.htmlstory

[Chet 99]

It seems like they’ve kept this away from the homes thus far. Cooling trend begins tomorrow... firefighters just need to make it through the day.

[svcw]

Thanks for posting. Here I though we were getting smoke and ash from way north of us and it turns out there is a fire in Hemet, CA only 25 miles away.

[placerville]

mt wilson web cam....flames and smoke...

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm#imagetop

[skimask]

Im not too far from the fire. Close enough to see it but not in any danger.

[SevenofNine]

Thanks Kelly I listen to KFI Radio right now lots of good coverage

[kellynla]

You’re very welcome

[truthkeeper]

Thank you for this. My brother is in La Canada Flintridge and was evacuated Thursday at 11:00 p.m. We are looking for every scrap of news we can get and are praying the house stands.

[kellynla]

You’re very welcome.

[Publius]

My old neighborhood from 1977 to 1989.

[leilani]

I wash just going to post that link. There's a lot of incredibly expensive hardware up there & this fire is perilously close to incinerating it all. I just can't believe how big the Station Fire is now - sometime after the last time I looked yesterday, it seems to have just exploded.

[La Enchiladita]

Ongoing thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2327845/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

[truthkeeper]

Thank you.

[originalbuckeye]

Coming back to Santa Clarita from Burbank this afternoon my husband remarked that it looked like a nuclear mushroom cloud. And it goes up for miles. Our air is disgusting. I hope all the people and animals are safe. Didn't they close that Wildlife Refuge on Little Tujunga Road? Otherwise those animals would be in real trouble.

[Cementjungle]

I have cousins who live on Alta Canyada Road out there, haven’t heard from them in a few days... looks like they might be in the thick of it.

[leilani]

Checl out the bottom pic in post 146 on the thread that La Enchiladita just linked us too. It sure does look like a mushroom cloud.

[truthkeeper]

My brother’s house is just a block north of the Greenridge Country Club. I’m so worried for him. He’s been out for 3 days now.