LA Fires

They’re about to over run Mt. Wilson

MOUNT WILSON – Firefighters will attempt to keep a strike force of fire engines on Mount Wilson, where critical communications facilities are in jeopardy of being overrun, a fire official said.

“Our original plan was to pull all firefighters off of it now,” said Mark Savage of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. “Right now, a strike team of engines is seeing if they can find a safe place to shelter up there. We are concerned that it will be overrun and we think it will burn, but we are not sure if the communication facilities will be overrun.”

By late afternoon, a huge plume of smoke rose from the western side of the peak, and the fire was creating winds pushing it to the east up the peak.

“It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” Savage said earlier.

Dozens of TV technicians are normally are stationed at Mount Wilson to keep 22 Los Angeles TV stations operating, along with about 25 fm radio stations and vital police and fire radio dispatch equipment functioning.

Here’s the latest picture from the webcam there this morning as of 3:47 LA time

(h/t to Insta)

One Response to “LA Fires”

1. tree hugging sister says:

   August 31, 2009 at 8:13 am

   Jeez louise.