August 30: Station Fire Timelapse
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Uploaded by wildbell on Aug 31, 2009
Condensed to a four-minute timelapse shot from my home in Silver Lake, this is 60 minutes in the life of the devastating Station Fire, which at the time of this video had burned more than 55 square miles of the Angeles National Forest and was threatening to overrun Mt. Wilson.
There is something about rampaging unstoppable wildfires and the literal and figurative pall they cast that both agitates and depresses me to marked degrees.
Sure Im not someone in the infernos path whos lost property or suffered injury, but however indirectly and from whatever distance I am from the devastation I am nonetheless deeply affected by it.
As the following timelapse video of the Station Fire shows, Im physically far away. From the roof of our Silver Lake home I set up the camera and captured the footage, condensed down to four minutes from an hour that passed last night beginning at 5 p.m.
Its not very dramatic from a visual level, but with the spewing white plumes that power up above the hanging haze of ash and smoke, it makes me imagine gargantuan steam locomotives unseen behind a curtain of poison, destroying everything in their predatory paths. And it breaks my heart.
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It breaks my heart too. People losing their property or even worse, animals are being killed, can't escape, and the beautiful trees, providing oxygen to the city, working like natural AC also, being destroyed.
Very sad, i agree.
Cali and its fires, Florida and its storms...sigh
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Whats the "Station Fire"?
MarblerNo2 2 years ago
That's the name fire officials gave to the wildfire that's been burning in the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles this past 12 days. I'm not sure why they named it that... maybe because of its proximity to a ranger station when it was first discovered.
wildbell 2 years ago
safe bet that those clouds were formed by the jumbo jets and helicopters that dumped water on the fires. the steam rose up and formed the clouds
theSTAR70 2 years ago
Actually the rising cloud formations are a phenomenon known as "pyro-cumulus," formed not so much by what's being dumped on the flames, but rather by the fire's high and rapidly rising surface heat, which condenses as it cools.
wildbell 2 years ago
Someone listens to KFI. Cool video. Thanks for posting it. You're right about how fires are named. The point of origin of a fire, whether it be a landmark, street or city. I'm pretty sure this one was named after the California Dept. of Forestry Ranger Station near where it started.
PutSome5tankOnIt 2 years ago
Thanks PS!
wildbell 2 years ago