Station Fire

Station Fire in La Canada down in SoCal looks to be getting a bit nasty.

Spectacular Evening Images from a Mt Wilson webcam - hope it is still there in the morning.

Fire/Evacuation map from LA Times

I hear JPL is closed over the weekend.

Better hope wind doesn't shift and pick up.

Oh, ok, grabbed a night image for souvenir - web cam images are of course dynamic

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Mt Wilson view 9:30 pm 29th Aug '09

PS: view over JPL towards the mountains the other night



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