Fire photos

Sep. 7th, 2009 05:58 pm
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/wildfires_in_southern_californ.html

http://www.mtwilson.edu/FirePhotos.php -- firefighting planes in action around Mount Wilson, taken by a master photographer.

http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/MWO/CrestPhotos1.php -- pictures of the devastation on the way up to Mount Wilson, taken by the director's wife on a grocery run.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/penner42/3898269166/ -- view from a plane of an impressive smoke column, apparently taken today. Out on the northeast corner, out of sight even from the Mount Wilson camera, the fire is still burning and spreading.

The view from the Towercam has been pretty serene today; early in the morning there was a sheet of silvery smoke or fog lying in the valley, eerily beautiful. The planned firing of the prepared firebreak line didn't happen today, due to the fire flaring up elsewhere, but it will probably happen tomorrow.

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