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Re: [IRCA] Mt. Wilson
HASCALL, DAVID CIV DFAS wrote:
Looks like fire may be between the Observatory and the Tower site. This
is too close! I'm not sure what the distance is between the two areas
but I think that the Observatory may be in more danger than the towers.
Here is a Mt. Wilson blog:
http://www.mtwilson.edu/fire.php
Last hour they said that it may be slightly improving but not according
to the webcam. Good luck!
Word I'm hearing is that the smoke being seen on the webcam is from
backfires being set on or near observatory property by firefighters.
The director of the observatory was interviewed on NPR earlier this
hour, and he said things have actually improved considerably up there
during the course of the day today. He says fire crews were pulled off
the mountain yesterday for fear that they'd be trapped up there, but
that they were brought back in around noon, PT, today.
I'm also hearing word that KRTH 101.1 has switched from Wilson to its
aux transmitter in the Verdugo Mountains between Glendale and Burbank.
Speculation is that they may have a clogged air filter in their
transmitter from all the smoke...but keep in mind that it's almost ALL
speculation now, since nobody from the stations or the observatory is up
on the mountain, and won't be for a while yet.
s
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