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The Station Fire was the largest wildfire of the 2009 California wildfire season, as well as the largest wildfire in the history of Los Angeles County.It burned in the Angeles National Forest, igniting on August 26, 2009, near the U.S. Forest Service Angeles Station 11 ranger station on the Angeles Crest Highway, [3] [4] and burned through October 16.
The 2009 California wildfires were a series of 9,159 wildfires that were active in the US state of California, during the year 2009. [2] [4] The fires burned more than 422,147 acres (660 sq mi; 1,708 km 2) of land from early February through late November, [1] due to Red Flag conditions, destroying hundreds of structures, injuring 134 people, and killing four.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ... getting an A+ on a high school auto shop assignment and saving a friend's home from the Station fire in 2009. ...
The blaze burned over 180 square miles (460 square kilometers); this made it the second-largest wildfire recorded in modern times in Los Angeles County, behind the 2009 Station Fire but surpassing the 1970 Clampitt Fire. [18] [19] Air quality was poor in the burned areas and in the Los Angeles basin for weeks as a result. [20]
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) For the record : 6:42 p.m. Oct. 10, 2023 : An earlier version of this report said Assistant Sheriff Sergio Aloma spoke this month about fire safety in jails.
A Times investigation of the 2009 Station fire in L.A. County, which killed two firefighters and was the largest in county history, found that U.S. Forest Service officials underestimated the ...
Larocque had set various capacities for the Station in the years before the fire based on whether pool tables and other items could be moved. [48] The capacity for the Station was either 258 or 404, depending on how the building was being used. [2] The final tally by The Providence Journal of people inside the Station during the fire totaled ...
At 3:43 a.m. Friday, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a fire that started at a construction site on Bunker Hill Avenue and that then jumped to a nearby three-story apartment building ...