Re: [IRCA] [Tvfmdx] Mt. Wilson

["DXer1@ msn.com" <dxer1@xxxxxxx>]

Right under the web cam picture is says this  "Note: the large amount of new smoke seen is due to backfires set by firefighters. This is the very best thing to do at the moment. 

 

is also says that for updates about Mt. Wilson you can go to www.mtwilson.edu/fire.php

Craig

Denver

> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:48:15 -0400
> From: scott@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: tvfmdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Tvfmdx] [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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