Fire, Smoke and a Little More Ash
by Pasadena Adjacent
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September 1, 2009, originally uploaded by Access Palm 2009.
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August 31, 2009, originally uploaded by Access Palm 2009.
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August 30, 2009, originally uploaded by Access Palm 2009.
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For the first three days of the fire (August 27-29) I did my filming from the Hahamonga watershed area adjacent to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In this post my locations are…..
September 2: From the north side of the York Blvd Bridge in Highland Park
September 1: An undeveloped area near Ora Vista road and Big Tujunga Canyon road
August 31: From the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena
August 30: From the fifth floor balcony of the Pasadena City College “R” building
There’s a fire road behind the station that leads up and over connecting up with La Canada’s “Cross Town” trail network. The fire has hopscotched over the “Cross Town” trail network headed east to Mount Luken’s Rim of the Valley trail in the Sunland/Tujunga area past Haines Canyon and further to west. A fire wall was created around George Deukmejian Park thus saving the historical French Winery and vineyards.
Also I could be completely wrong on all of this.
Hey those were some scary vids. Sorry some of your beautiful hikes are ruined for a while. Hope you guys are O.K.
BREAKING NEWS (select HQ)
I switched out the video in the September 1st slot for one that contains an element of optimism in it. You’ll see…..This below is not it
Yeah, that 9/11 video was something. But, did your “ace reporter” ever disclose where he shot it?
September 1: An undeveloped area near Ora Vista road and Big Tujunga Canyon road
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What’s that I hear about Mount Wilson? I know where the topics covered along with other stories of heartbreak related to our local mountain’s history.
http://www.palmaxis.com/
Each story is compromised of seven posts that conclude at the end of the blog page. At the bottom of the page, select older posts to get to the next story (the Brown Brothers). After The Brown Brothers is the story of the extinction of our local California Grizzly bear.
More amazing and scary footage. It looks high def – is this a new camera?
I remember the Palm Axis Mt. Wilson posts well. If you have any contact with P-Ax, tell them that it’s great to be able to see the posts again.
so sad :(
It’s been weird to follow the progress of the fire through Facebook. First all the La Canada friends talked about it. THen the Altadena one. Then a few Glendale ones, and now the Monrovia ones.
Yep, good clean up job. My hat’s off to you.
BTW, I should have noted that I was in contact with our Sunland friends, and yes, unless the Santa Anna winds pick up they are OK.
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Latest news being that Mount Wilson and it’s observatory are saved??? This is a image to the back country that I think the fire is taking out in it’s march eastward. I took the photo from Vetter’s fire watch tower looking towards Mount Wilson. The Tujunga video shows the mountain to the right is completely devoid of foliage due to fire.
Chris: I was never in harms way. The chaparral will come back quickly. Can’t say the same about the pine.
CO: 911? I was thinking more on the lines of the destruction of Tara as in “gone with the wind”
Tash: Thanks for the link. Had to bring Palm Axis out of dust balls. Seemed appropriate. Same camera but I download onto FLIKR which is better and cleaner.
Deepak: It is indeed. I go up into our local mountains at least three times a week. I wish our media would define burn sites by the trails they encompass. I have no sense of what “is” and “isn’t”
Margaret: I can’t follow Face Book. I don’t understand the language FB uses. I find it near impossible to try to stay informed on the massiveness of this event. I’m watching the hiker and Albert do the heavy lifting. I just take videos and cry.
Mid-Town-G: They’re on the Verdugo hills side. Lets just hope the pyro’s bypass that mountain.
Curiouser and curiouser. If I were returning home from some faraway place and had heard nothing of the fires, and had no sense of smell, I would guess these were some benign clouds over the foothills, with possible but unlikely chance of rain.
(When I play your second vid and the dog barks, Albert comes tearing into the room. All muscle, no brain.)
IMPORTANT: Fire Meeting Tonite! Ck my website for more info.
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AH: I debated as to whether or not to put up the last video for that very reason…then decided to for that reason.
This link opens into a large format of the fire time lapse video on FLIKR
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anosmicovni/3864982760/
this is the rest of the FLIKR page on the fire
http://blog.flickr.net/2009/09/03/station-fire-los-angeles/