Fire blogging

[ellarien]

From Inciweb, this afternoon:

"The situation at Mount Wilson has continued to improve."

[...]
Plans are also in action to continue water and retardant drops near Mount Wilson. Crews have done a tremendous amount of work prepping the mountain top against the fire."



Time-lapse YouTube video of the Station fire, from the now-offline Towercam at Mount Wilson.

Station Fire was Arson (LA Times)

Stony Ridge Observatory also under threat.

Firefighters wave five-day battle to save Mount Wilson Observatory (LA Times)"

Mt. Wilson Observatory escapes serious damage
... but the mirrors on the 60-foot solar tower might have been left exposed to smoke and ash in the hasty evacuation.

The Chicago Tribune blogger finds a local angle; Chicago architects had a part in the building of the observatory.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the updates. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed.

[ellarien]

I'm glad someone is finding them useful!

I think things are calming down. The big news in last night's update at the Inciweb site was that they had to shut down the media's generators at the command center for a couple of hours to cut down the carbon monoxide. It made me wonder whether the firefighters wouldn't really prefer to be able to do their jobs without having to work around the camera crews.