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Meanwhile, the Mt. Wilson Observatory provided this update on its Instagram page: “As you may have seen on the news, the Eaton fire is approaching Mount Wilson.
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.
Fire updates: ∎ Firefighters ... Mount Wilson, located at the peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, is home to communication towers and a telecommunication station that much of the Los Angeles area ...
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 ...
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.
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 Station Fire was the largest wildfire of the 2009 California wildfire season. 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.
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 ...