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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.
The Station Fire (August 26 – October 16, 160,577 acres (251 sq mi; 650 km 2), 209 structures destroyed, including 89 homes) [36] started in the Angeles National Forest near the U.S. Forest Service ranger station on the Angeles Crest Highway (State Highway 2).
The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California . California has dry, windy, and often hot weather conditions from spring through late autumn that can produce moderate to severe wildfires.
Deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area have sent tens of thousands scrambling for safety and decimated neighborhoods. Wildfire smoke has spread miles from the major blazes as fire crews and the ...
Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area continued to burn mostly out of control on Thursday, with at least five blazes engulfing more than 45 square miles. At least 16 people have died as a ...
Firefighters continue to battle several wildfires around the Los Angeles area as of Sunday. The nearly 100-year-old Topanga Ranch Motel was destroyed in the blaze on Tuesday night. Local landmarks ...
Los Angeles fire or Los Angeles wildfire may refer to: 20th century. 1933 Griffith Park fire; 1961 Bel Air Fire; ... 2009 California wildfires; 2010s
From his home outside Phoenix, fire historian Stephen Pyne sees history unfolding in this week's destruction in Los Angeles. "It may be the fire equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane,” said Pyne ...