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mattmaxon

Station Fire Saturday August 29th

This GE image shows the areas of Active burning detected on the pass overs at 5:50 GMT and 10:14 GMT (10pm 8/28 & 3am 8/29 local)

Seems strange the fire has retreated to it's "core" (mostly) with an extension toward Colby Cyn and upper Arroyo Seco toward Red Box

I'm not sure where others are seeing information on Millard Cyn being affected but I see no evidence it has gotten in there

But OTOH I have first hand reports the fire is in Silver Cyn too so who knows...confusion reigns! Evil or Very Mad

Is it threatened..you bet... Will it get there who knows... this fire is crazy.... extreme behavior for sure, I hate to think what it'd be like with some Santa Ana's



mattmaxon

Inciweb perimeter map

I noticed a perimeter map on the Inciweb info page

I have it out for carbon dating as they have no date or time on it, but it looks like the fire I saw on Thursday Morning 8/26

I extracted this relevant info and viola!

Obviously it has gotten much much bigger with a 5000 acre value

cougarmagic

Re: Station Fire Saturday August 29th

mattmaxon wrote:


I'm not sure where others are seeing information on Millard Cyn being affected but I see no evidence it has gotten in there


No direct evidence, just with how much it spread yesterday (1 day!) and how close it is, and no effort to contain the "back end" of the fire (just save the expensive houses....).  Pessimistically inevitable....
Mike P

J- Was your camera in the path of this fire????
cougarmagic

Mike P wrote:
J- Was your camera in the path of this fire????


Two cameras...




Can you offer any encouragement on how larger animals deal with fire?  I'm much more worried about that than my gear.  I've read the lions can easily move out of the area, but then they have to deal with being in another's territory, plus loss of food & water.  And the smoke is bad enough here - I hope they find some sheltered areas.
HikeUp

Unreal how big this thing has gotten.

I've added more pics from today to flickr.

Friday at 12 noon...

Saturday at 11:14a...


Saturday at 11:14am

Saturday at 12:41pm
mattmaxon

Big-T evacuated

My friends who live at la paloma flat where evacuated with flames within ¼ mile

I drove from Big-T Rd to La Cresenta (Ocean View Blvd)

Fire down into Hall-Beckley Canyon to at least 2900ft level

Probably lower from what I could see, but to there for sure

The south Side of Mt Lukens has fire in the Head of Haines Canyon

The North face of Mt Lukens from Grizzly Flat to probably Delta Cyn is in flames

The fire has jumped Big-T rd @ Stony Vale and is making a run for Condor Peak

Mandatory evacuations for Colby Ranch area too....
cougarmagic

This blog has good information:

http://www.altadenablog.com/

Quote:
UPDATE 1:30: Mt. WIlson: Apparently now there is growing concern that the critical communications towers on Mt. Wilson may be endangered.  In a note to the "neighbors" usegroup, Steve Bass reports that there is only one engineer now on the hill taking care of all stations.  Upper Big Tujunga Rd. is no longer usable for egress due to a fire 300 yards from Colby Ranch on Upper Big Tujunga.  The only safe way out now is through Wrightwood.
mattmaxon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Kxun2MvEQ

This was still processing @ 3:02pm
Kit Fox

Matt,

It looks like your "Sugarbush" geocache was right in the middle of this fire.
mattmaxon

Yeah, that's "toast" as are my tools on Stone Cyn Trail

Hopefully my friends house isn't one of the 3-5 lost in Big Tujunga Sad
robnokshus

Mt Wilson thread

Here's a link to a thread on what's going on up at Mt. Wilson:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=151865.0
cougarmagic

mattmaxon wrote:
Hopefully my friends house isn't one of the 3-5 lost in Big Tujunga Sad


Some good news - Jane has heard her house is still there!

The other homes in the canyon...not so much....
mattmaxon

cougarmagic wrote:
mattmaxon wrote:
Hopefully my friends house isn't one of the 3-5 lost in Big Tujunga Sad


Some good news - Jane has heard her house is still there!

The other homes in the canyon...not so much....


Yeah
talked with'em

Definitely too bad about the others 10 on the south side of the river

Some of the other canyon residents went to our fearless leaders news conference at Hansen Dam and held his feet to the fire

apparently he got some answers

The unofficial figure I've heard is 30
Hikin_Jim

Re: Big-T evacuated

mattmaxon wrote:
My friends who live at la paloma flat where evacuated with flames within ¼ mile

I drove from Big-T Rd to La Cresenta (Ocean View Blvd)

Fire down into Hall-Beckley Canyon to at least 2900ft level

Probably lower from what I could see, but to there for sure

The south Side of Mt Lukens has fire in the Head of Haines Canyon

The North face of Mt Lukens from Grizzly Flat to probably Delta Cyn is in flames

The fire has jumped Big-T rd @ Stony Vale and is making a run for Condor Peak

Mandatory evacuations for Colby Ranch area too....
Dang.  Hatin' it.  

My mom was evac'd from Briggs Terrace yesterday.  House is still there as of this afternoon.  A lot of fuel still left in the Pickens Canyon area.

Haines Canyon burning?  Crap.  Nice stretch of trees in the head of the canyon.  Sad
HikeUp

Re: Big-T evacuated

Hikin_Jim wrote:
My mom was evac'd from Briggs Terrace yesterday.  House is still there as of this afternoon.


Good to hear HJ! I have a few friends in the same general area that had to be evac'd too. Not fun.
Hikin_Jim

Re: Big-T evacuated

HikeUp wrote:
Hikin_Jim wrote:
My mom was evac'd from Briggs Terrace yesterday.  House is still there as of this afternoon.


Good to hear HJ! I have a few friends in the same general area that had to be evac'd too. Not fun.
Tried to go up tonight to check on things.  Mand. evac. area now multiple blocks lower.  Couldn't get a look

Fire now burning right down to the houses in Tujunga.  I'm about 4 blocks west and 1 block south of the evac. area.  Don't feel particularly threatened, but if the wind kicks up ...  Shocked

I keep hearing that we might get the tail of some tropical storm down south (Jimena?).  A little rain would be good right now.  A lot of rain would be a disaster.   Shocked

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