LA Fires: Images and Video from Around the Web

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Barb Dybwad
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LA Fires: Images and Video from Around the Web
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We've collated some of the online footage here for newshounds to check out in one place. For breaking updates, follow the LA Times's @LATimesfires Twitter account and check their L.A. Now blog's wildfires site section.

Video

The fire in the La Cañada Flintridge area north of Los Angeles, also known as the Station Fire, spread out in multiple directions, forcing home evacuations through the weekend. Firefighters are currently fighting back a fire line threatening Mount Wilson, home to multiple communications towers and the Wilson Observatory.


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CBS News's aerial footage of the Station Fire.

Citizen footage from the Station Fire looking towards Big Tujunga Canyon, courtesy of Citizentube and jaydubyatee.

ABC News's eyewitness coverage of the Yucaipa area fires burning southeast of Los Angeles.

Intense night footage of the Station Fire including a resulting electrical explosion, via neoninsanity.

Time-lapse series of HD still shots of the smoke plume from the Station fire, courtesy of jcmegabyte.

Footage of the Station Fire and its atom bomb-like smoke cloud from the top of La Canada Blvd., courtesy of hillmaste.

For more citizen video footage of the fires, check out Citizentube's LA Fires playlist.

Images

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LA Times -- Amazing imagery of battling and fleeing from the Station Fire. More images of the Southern California wildfires.

NASA -- Images of the Station Fire taken by NASA from space show both the large area affected by the blaze and the incredible distance covered by the resulting smoke.

Flickr -- Amazing photo set of the La Cañada fires, by anosmicovni. For more imagery on Flickr check out the SoCal Wildfires group pool and the "station fire" tag sorted by interestingness.

Twitpic -- This image has been widely retweeted as a citizen's eye view of the fire, from joshuaeldridge (also featured as this post's header image).

LA Times -- Residents of Big Tujunga Canyon returned for tearful reunions at the site of their former homes, now reduced to ash. One resident told the LA Times, "It looks like the moon."

Maps

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For an interactive map of the LA blazes, head here. Or go straight to the Google version for a map with a legend and annotations (pictured above).

For a map that includes SoCal fires burning further north, east and southeast of Los Angeles including the Yucaipa area fires, check out ABC Local's interactive map.

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