UPDATED 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: Station Fire resources and blogroll for up-to-minute information
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Station Fire resources:
- City of Sierra Madre Emergency Information blog and main city site are being continually updated
"At this time the Station Fire continues to be a slow moving fire and if the fire continues moving toward Sierra Madre, officials do not expect it to enter the City for at least five days. This prediction is contingent on if the current weather conditions continue." (3:04 p.m. Wednesday)
- City of Monrovia emergency notifications posted on main city site
"Monrovia's Sawpit Dam helibase is operational for helicopter use in fighting the fire around La Canada Flintridge. As a contingency plan, bulldozers from the U.S. Forest Service are working in local foothills to cut fire breaks Monrovia. The fire is not currently a threat to Monrovia." (3:05 p.m. Wednesday)
- Los Angeles County Fire Department incident information for Station fire -- With details on mandatory evacuations, evacuations that have been lifted in La Canada and Altadena (residents only), Red Cross shelters and animal shelters
- For evacuation information on Station fire, call 211
- InciWeb for Station Fire -- With details and regular updates on mandatory evacuations and evacuation centers.
- La Canada Flintridge city site -- Click on "Station fire" updates, which occur hourly.
- Altadenablog -- Station fire updates lead the site. Recommend reading the comments.
- Glendale city site -- With regular updates on mandatory evacs and centers affecting Glendale residents
- Build an emergency preparedness kit (via Department of Public Health)
- Los Angeles County emergency scanner -- live audio feed
- Updates from Mt. Wilson director on threat to observatory and towers
- Situation summary from Los Angeles County Web site -- includes road closures, new and existing shelters, shelter closings, and evacuation info
- Live feed of the L.A. County EMS activity for Station fire
- Hourly weather data and conditions near the fire from Department of Water Resources
- Animal shelter listing for areas impacted by SoCal fires
How to help:
- Donate online to the Red Cross
- The Red Cross evacuation center at La Canada High School is seeking air conditioning vendors with portable units to help cool their gymnasium. To help, call La Cañada Flintridge City Hall at (818) 790-8880
- Pasadena Humane Society -- In need of donations for evacuated animals
- Lonnee Hamilton's blog -- Hamilton has begun to pool community resources, volunteers and donations to aid evacuees and firefighters
News media:
- Los Angeles Times -- L.A. Now
- KFI AM 640 -- Dedicated page for fire updates, including pet evacuation centers
- TCN North Now -- covering Glendale, Crescenta Valley, Burbank and La Cañada
School closures and updates:
- Glendale Unified -- All Glendale schools will remain CLOSED on Wednesday. A message from the superintendent is available on the district. Web site.
- La Canada Unified -- All LCUSD schools will be OPEN on Wednesday. Outdoor activities will be suspended until air quality improves. Notices will be posted on district Web site.
- Pasadena City College will hold enrollment spots for students affected by fire -- via Star-News. College officials will continue to update the news section of the PCC Web site. Information line open at (626) 585-7315.
- Pasadena Unified suspends outdoor athletic activities. School was not yet in session.
- Los Angeles Unified -- Schools in Sunland and eastern San Fernando Valley region were not yet in session. Outdoor athletic activities suspended.
- Santa Clarita -- William S. Hart Union High School District and Saugus Union School District remain open
- Acton-Agua Dulce Unified -- Not yet in session
Maps:
- Station fire on Google maps -- from the L.A. Times
- All California wildfires through ENPLAN wildfire viewer
- Air-quality map (via AQMD)
- View of Station fire from space
- Round-up of best Web maps of California wildfires at Search Engine Land
Live Web cams:
- Mount Wilson Observatory -- Image updates every 2 minutes -- UPDATE: Camera not working. LAObserved reports it is unclear if the outage was caused by traffic or the fire.
- While the Mt. Wilson tower cam is down, you can view a time-lapse sequence of photos from Sunday night showing the approach of the fire.
Video sources:
- Live coverage from CBS2-KCAL9 Sky 9 over La Canada Flintridge -- Channel 9's evening fire coverage really hit close to home, reports Kevin Roderick at LAObserved:
"Channel 9's fire coverage in the 9 o'clock hour included several minutes with reporter Dave Lopez on the battle by firefighters to save the La Cañada Flintridge home of the station's helicopter pilot, Larry Welk."
- Time-lapse video of Station fire, via Star-News
- Live video from ABC7's Air7 HD
- Another time-lapse video, this one from Saturday afternoon, via LAObserved
Twitter feeds to monitor:
- Aggregate feed at Frank Girardot's Crime Scene blog
- #StationFire hash tags on Twitter
- SGVN Metro Editor Frank Girardot
Local blogs are igniting, too, with photos and discussions on the blaze:
- Pasadena Daily Photo -- Petrea Burchard's before and after pics tell the story. ("Before" image is from Tuesday, Aug. 18 -- aka not so long ago.)
- KCHblog out of La Canada Flintridge
- Welcome to the Meadows -- Fire updates specific to The Meadows community above Altadena
- Greg Gehr's Family Blog -- Many resources and links
- Photojournalist Jonathan Alcorn
- Station fire images on Flickr
- Susan Kitchens' 2020 Hindsight blog -- With links to more local resources
- Ann Erdman, Pasadena Public Information Officer
- Firefighter blog -- Impressive Google Earth images with overlaying technical data
(Photo, a view of the Station Fire from Hollywood, courtesy Zack Morrissette)
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For live feed of the LA County EMS activity for the Station Fire
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=201