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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.
Firefighters are nearing victory in the battles against three major wildfires near Los Angeles that have burned more than 117,000 acres, destroyed nearly 200 structures and injured 23 people ...
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.
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In the Station Fire, more than 161,000 acres (650 km 2) of the forest were burned by an arson fire that began on August 26, 2009, near Angeles Crest Highway in La Cañada and quickly spread, fueled by dry brush that had not burned for over 150 years.
The Canyon Crest Fire, which began Thanksgiving evening to the east of Los Angeles, has now reached 250 acres and has sparked evacuation warnings for residents living in Riverside and San ...
A wildfire in Angeles National Forest that broke out Sunday afternoon north of Glendora has quickly grown to 800 acres, officials said, forcing forest visitors and some nearby residents to flee.
The 2007 California wildfire season saw at least 9,093 separate wildfires that charred 1,520,362 acres (6,152.69 km 2) of land. [1] Thirty of those wildfires were part of the Fall 2007 California firestorm, [5] which burned approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934 km 2, or 1,520 mi 2) of land from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico border. [6]