- They’re looking for help to restore the site and make it more fire-ready.
- The Sunday morning report said:
Sunday, 6 Sep 09, 9:55 am PDT – The plan for the day, which I got from several Helena Hotshots, is for “plumbing” the fire break installed over the last couple of days along the northern perimeter of Mount Wilson and heading out Newcomb’s Ridge to the powerlines supplying communities well east of Pasadena. About six miles of fire hose, delivered by helicopter slings, will be laid along this line in preparation for the back fire that is likely to be set today or tomorrow on the northside of the break.
The air tankers are staging again now, most likely to finish painting fire retardant along the south side of the fire break to discourage the fire from jumping the break. Once again, this is all being done to keep the fire out of Big Santa Anita Canyon and threatening Monrovia and Sierra Madre. Mount Wilson is, of course, a beneficiary of this amazing effort.
- Dave Jurasevich, Superintendent of Mount Wilson Observatory, has some stunning pictures here.
- And, ABC News has a feature on the LA Times photographers who are jumping into the fire zone.
