El Prieto at risk!/Station Fire (merged threads)

The Big Guns are out!

Supertankers now over JPL...

 

I just saw the DC-10 (i think thats what it is) fly over. I think we only have one though.

 

JPL is a GOV installation...

... they're gonna save that before anything else. Hence the DC 10 takes 1 shot on the target. Hope he comes back a few times!

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

 

Great shot!

http://wrongcrowd.com/albums/neil/P1000409.jpg

I think it was some TV news heli pilots' house, he was just on the air saying his house got phos-checked.

Ya know STR has better coverage than TV or radio! Keep it up folks.

 

Thats another thing! Where's the news coverage???

 

Tapps...

I just heard Tapps played for Teddy Kennedy, but I felt it for the Gabe...

 

Thanks for the updates and the pics. Sad to see but the trails will still be there after this. The smoke from my place looks like an A bomb was dropped behind Mt. Leukens.

 

Radio said the plume of smoke is 20,000 feet high - and approaching 20,000 acres at least.

 

here is the updated Los Angeles Times google map, estimating the extent of the burn area:

map here

 

More cellphone pics from JPL parking lot around 4ish. Phos-checking the peak above JPL

Pretty much all of Brown saddle

The parking lot was still a zoo. Highway patrol officer at the entrance of the yellow gate keepin people out.

 

Hope that map is wrong as it show Josephine Peak in the burn area and getting very close to Colby Canyon...That means Strawberry Loop threatened. This is looking very bad.

Dean

 

Yes, it's a bit of a circus.

 

It's not accurate, yet. The front side of Leukens hasn't burned yet, but there are spot fires cresting the ridge now.

http://twitpic.com/fsbmd

 

I was amazed at how many planes and helicopters were in such a small area. Its a finely tuned circus of the skies. Props to those guys and all the crews on the ground fighten this one out!

 

Best shots of the day! Awesome coverage. Thanks again! Is that the Brown Mtn. road or something else? Looks like the li'l radio doodad on the brown climb.

 

Yeah sadly thats exactly what that is. It almost looks like the smokes commin out of the El P. canyon.

 

yup they are not going to be rideable for a while until vegetation has a chance to re-establish itself, hopefully it will be later than sooner; as i dont want the trail to erode much more than it already has.

that being said, i think we should organize a couple of trail rebuilding days to get things fixed up real nice-like!

whaddya say ???

 

http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/nfn.htm

 

Correct on both.

I can donate a Saturday or two - it'll be a good chance to get to know the trail in a low-committment environment.

 

Quite possibly much higher. I took this pic in Huntington Beach around 2:00. I used the plumes and a lifeguard station as a line up point while surfing...