SoCal Fire Doubles in Size; Backfires Being Set to Try to Save Mount Wilson
UCLA webcam image from atop Mount Wilson at 10:26 a.m. PDT on 31 August 2009
The latest on the fire that is threatening Mount Wilson from MSNBC:
A wildfire threatening 12,000 homes and a major communications center nearly doubled in size overnight, giving firefighters little time to rest or mourn two colleagues killed on Sunday.
The fire had burned 134 square miles of brush and trees in the Angeles National Forest by early Monday, up from 71 square miles on Sunday evening, officials said.
It was just a half-mile from Mount Wilson, a ridgetop center overlooking Los Angeles that includes many broadcasting antennas and an observatory. Crews planned to set backfires to slow its advance. Planes have dropped retardant around the towers.
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