The Station Fire

As we were leaving the commissary at Los Angeles Air Force Base yesterday (Saturday, 29 August 2009), Scott and I had noticed that the large cloud of smoke over the Station fire had increased in size. Once we got onto the 105 freeway, I had my camera at the ready and was able to get this shot of a Southwest airline jet coming in for a landing at LAX with the smoke cloud in the background.




We got home, unloaded groceries out of the car. Put the cold stuff away and headed back out for more pictures.

Scott took this photo from Friendship Park.


During our quest to get a better vantage point, we found ourselves driving in the direction of the fire. We ended up in La Crescenta on Foothills Blvd. standing on a corner, with other on lookers, watching the fire department helicopters and other aircraft doing water drops.











The top of large plume of smoke




I took this as we were driving along the 210 freeway.