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Time lapse video of the fire burning through the Arroyo Seco and making runs on to Starlight Mesa and JPL. Thats JPL in the bottom right of center. The top of the ridge above the lab is the antenna test range.

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  • Mark Forman plus 2 years ago
    Great stuff!
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  • michael montenegro 2 years ago
    it's beautiful yet horrific
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  • Tim Jones 2 years ago
    Great movie; slightly tainted by the fact the fire is now at my in-law's doorstep (they evacuated last night)
  • Dan Finnerty 2 years ago
    Just getting around to reading comments. I hope your in-laws house is ok. We had to evacuate my daughters horse from his stable in Tujunga last night.
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  • Tim Jones 2 years ago
    Tks Dan, they're up the hill in La Canada. Thought they were out of it, but things are livening up again. We're watching from the UK, so doubly helpless! The folks are o.k though.
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  • Ellen Mandeville 2 years ago
    Dan, Thanks for the phenomenal footage. I was born in Glendale and lived the first 24 years of my life in La Crescenta. I now live in the Sun Valley area of Idaho - where the Castle Rock fire two years ago (to the week!) would have taken out Ketchum, Sun Valley and the skiing on Baldy but for the amazing work of the fire fighters. School here was delayed for a week. De ja vue (however the heck it's spelled...). I love the mountains of the Angeles National Forest. I'll have to take a trip back in a few years to see the regrowth. I pray that no more lives are lost!
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  • Ron Buning 2 years ago
    Dan... thanks for the footage. I watched the fire approach JPL from the turnout at Ventura/Wilcox on the east side of JPL's parking lot. This gives a whole new perspective on the speed at which the fire moved and the acreage consumed.
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  • Rose Bud 2 years ago
    Amazing and so scary. Poor wildlife, imagine the terror and no escape for them.
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  • Dan Finnerty 2 years ago
    Thanks for the comments everyone. I'm amazed how popular this clip has become! Glad you all could see it.

    Though it has passed us by, the fire is still actively burning in the back country. Looking at the local mountains, there is nothing left where the fire burned. If there is anything left alive there, there is nothing whatsoever for them to eat. A tragedy to have such a huge fire. Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem, but 160,000 acres is just to much. And the flood potential this winter will pose as much risk to houses as the fire did.
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  • Dean Cannon 2 years ago
    I was born and raised in La Crescenta and have been watching this very closely on the news from Arizona and talking to my friends that were evacuated. Thankfully none of them lost their homes, but my heart goes out to those who did. This conjured up old memories of 1975 when I was awoken to loudspeakers telling us to get out and running down the street with my dog at 4:30 in the morning. Exciting then...scary now.
  • Dan Finnerty 2 years ago
    Interesting you should bring up the 1975 fire. That year I was working on the Bear Divide Hot Shot crew, but had to leave before the end of fire season to complete a mandatory class for my major at UC Berkeley. It was only offered once a year.

    Imagine my surprise when, a week after starting classes, the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle showed a weather satellite photo of the smoke plume from that huge fire flowing off the southern California coast into the Pacific Ocean!

    It turns out that my former crew had been put on the over night mop up shift (a thankless, miserable task) for a small fire that started that day on the Angeles Forest highway near the tunnel by Hidden Springs. Late that night, the Santa Anna winds began to blow fiercely and apparently fanned some undetected embers across the fire line.

    In minutes all was lost and a huge fire burned out Big Tujunga canyon and all the way to the foothill communities. I heard that a fuel truck with a load of Jet A (for the helicopters working the fire) had to make a run for his life to escape the flames, they were spreading so quickly. It sounds like the fire got to your house early the next morning!

    All I could do was watch the news reports and feel guilty about abandoning my crew-mates. Nothing I could have done, but it still was a bad feeling. Got a major ribbing when I showed up for work the start of the next fire season too!
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  • Steven Stathatos 2 years ago
    Did you take this video down? I really wanted to show it to my father. Please advise.
  • Dan Finnerty 2 years ago
    No I didn't. It still plays fine on my computer.
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  • Dean Cannon 2 years ago
    The mudslides in February of 1978 due to the 1975 fire were terrible too. One of my good friends had mud to their ceilings and 13 cars were washed into their yard. Six of them were in their swimming pool.
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