Station Fire plume timelapse, August 29, 2009
The La Canada Station Fire’s smoke plume is visible all over southern California. Here you can watch it literally explode into a pyrocumulous cloud in the second shot. These two timelapse shots were captured via digital camera and are presented around 75x actual speed (a little over a minute of actual time per second of viewing). The mushroom cloud effect is amazing evidence of the fire’s power. Also amazing is how fast the plume moves, even when viewed from many, many miles away.
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This fire is …
This fire is especially upsetting to me. On a family trip to Los Angeles in 1998, I traveled on the Angeles Crest Highway from Pasadena to Route 39. When I was there, the snow was very deep and the road was closed beyond Route 39. It was so cool to go from the palm trees and sub-tropical vegetation in Pasadena to the alpine forest with deep snow in a very short distance. Now, the beauty of the forest on this portion of the route is gone, because of some hole arsonist.
Great video..
I …
Great video..
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Music? How about …
Music? How about Ramstein’s ‘Firefight’.
I remember the Angeles Crest fire in 1959 in the same area. It scared me to death and came very close to our house on Day St in Tujunga. As kids, we hiked to the top of Mt. Lukens in the vid many times. I feel sorry for the people who lost homes and would like to waterboard the losers who started this fire.
Thank you to all …
Thank you to all the firefighters
Reasonable …
Reasonable explanation. I do live in another part of the country. My thought is though these reporters act like it every fire has always been called a “station fire”
Here’s another …
Here’s another thought. Wildfires are a typical problem here. Many of them never grow to a large size, but many of them are “named” so we can keep track of them. Once they’re huge, the name rarely reflects the location/nature of it any longer.
Even the Northridge earthquake of ‘94 is mis-named. The tremblor actually happened in Reseda, but Northridge stuck because it’s better known. Oops… maybe THAT was the media’s fault.
Yes, I see your …
Yes, I see your point that the name of the fire doesn’t mean a lot. I also agree that there are serious problems with the media. However, I think you would be in error to pin the oddness of the name on them. These natural disasters are typically named by the agency who initially responds to the problem, which in this case would have either been the LA County Fire Department or the US Forest Service. Perhaps you live in another part of the country… we kind of get used to these odd names.
Sincere thanks for …
Sincere thanks for answering the question DR Bill. So now when a fire is started next to a pool it is a pool fire or if it is started next to a latrine it is a latrine fire. Doesn’t what I said at the outset make sense? Why doesn’t people question “station fire” Why is it the media grabs on something and creates a “station fire” ? Why isn’t it a fire or a forest fire? What mindless dribble. Station fire! Road fire. Park fire. Camp fire. Do you see the point people. The media are like parrots
Please look at my …
Please look at my earlier comments, already answered
Yep, I guess we’ll …
Yep, I guess we’ll never know.
no it was started …
no it was started near a ranger station i think**
Is this fire called …
Is this fire called a “station fire” for a reason or is it the ignorant media again picking up on a new way to say things and then beating it to death like “on the ground” Pleas someone explain station fire. Was there a station there or?
It’s got nothing to …
It’s got nothing to do with environmentalists. What really needs to be gotten rid of are the people who build their houses in these areas, and the speculative real estate developers that make it all possible.
If there were no houses there the fires could be left to run their natural course, reducing the intensity of the next fire. But as long as there are buildings and people there, the fires must be extinguished as fast as possible. That sets these areas up for a bigger disaster next time.
Maybe if you would …
Maybe if you would have made it one shot and put some music to it, this video would have been good. 2 star
well that would be …
well that would be like me saying, all people from the south just eat bbq, and watch nascar
and jus to think …
and jus to think all that smoke made it to southern wyoming……no wonder it was so dern smoky a few days ago….impressive vid 5 stars!!
Naive perhaps, but …
Naive perhaps, but ignorant?
uhhm there is alot …
uhhm there is alot more to california than that, kind of an ignorant statement
i live right next …
i live right next to this fire, everyday before school this week ive had ash all on my car
You know, I threw …
You know, I threw this together in a hurry thinking I’d add music later. Well, now I have the music but discovered that YouTube’s “AudioSwap” function only works for THEIR options and doesn’t permit uploading my own new track. But I agree, music would have been a good thing!
First fire then …
First fire then hurricane and callifornia is overdue for an earthquake that would cover the budget problem..
nice lapse, add …
nice lapse, add some audio next time
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If the …
If the environmentalists would allow people to rid the forests of dead wood with controlled fires then these larger out of control fires would not be threatenings major cities.
Yes, smoke turns …
Yes, smoke turns into clouds.
lol.