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This isn’t the first time Mt. Wilson has been threatened by fire, most notably by the Station fire in 2009, which burned more than 160,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.
It began as a brush fire near the site where an earlier fire, called the Lachman Fire, had been located on Jan. 1, and it spiraled out of control as high winds hit the region.
Flames from the Eaton fire came perilously close to the Mt. Wilson transmitters, and local stations, including KABC, PBS SoCal and radio KLOS-FM, reported losing transmissions.
The Eaton Fire was a highly-destructive wildfire in Los Angeles County, Southern California.The fire began on the evening of January 7, 2025, in the Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains, and was driven by powerful Santa Ana winds into foothill communities, particularly Altadena.
The Station Fire burned on the slopes of Mount Wilson, threatening numerous television, radio and cellular telephone antennas on the summit, as well as the Mount Wilson Observatory, which includes several historically significant telescopes and multimillion-dollar astronomical facilities operated by UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley and Georgia State ...
At midday, the fire began to advance into residential zones of Pasadena. All of La Cañada Flintridge was ordered to evacuate. [74] At least five people had died in the fire. [125] In the afternoon of January 9, the Eaton Fire began to approach Mount Wilson. [126] On January 18, the fire was 65% contained, with 17 deaths reported from the fires ...
UPDATED at 1 p.m.: A tweet was just posted on the account for the Angeles National Forest saying the raging Bobcat Fire is within 500 feet of the historic Mt. Wilson Observatory. Yesterday, a ...
The fire then grew westward and threatened the Mount Wilson Observatory by September 15, approaching within 500 feet (152 m) of the observatory as firefighters worked to protect the structure. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] By September 17, the fire rapidly expanded to the north into Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness due to moderate coastal winds, leading ...