Author Topic: Fire in Azusa Canyon! (Read 6775 times)

MaxPower · « **on:** September 02, 2012, 04:23:49 PM »

Lots of smoke in the hills so I checked the news. ABC is reporting that 75 acres are on fire in East Fork of Azusa Canyon and the community up there has been evacuated. Early reports suggest and illegal BBQ started the fire.

To give some perspective....the bridge we drove under while in the Azusa OHV area is the East Fork bridge. The community that I THINK the are talking about is just a couple of miles east of where we were.

MaxPower · « **Reply #1 on:** September 02, 2012, 04:26:51 PM »

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=weather%2Fwildfire_center&id=8795686

MaxPower · « **Reply #2 on:** September 02, 2012, 04:32:16 PM »

Oh no! ABC now says 400 acres!

200 fire fighters and 8 aircraft called in.

MaxPower · « **Reply #3 on:** September 02, 2012, 04:50:53 PM »

Now they are reporting 700 acres!!! Good grief!!!

http://glendora.patch.com/articles/small-brush-fire-burning-in-san-gabriel-mountains#photo-10907255

This fire is out of control!

MaxPower · « **Reply #4 on:** September 02, 2012, 06:33:09 PM »

NBC says 1000 acres now. This is crazy!

Ghost65 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 02, 2012, 07:58:18 PM »

This is a serious bummer.

BrO-J · « **Reply #6 on:** September 03, 2012, 03:44:23 AM »

This is what it looked like when the canyon was evacuated.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s72/rondawg80/02C54430-D399-4B7D-A0E8-C813C7F0AAD5-6704-00000684B19CA922.jpg

Fire in Azusa Canyon!

BrO-J · « **Reply #7 on:** September 03, 2012, 03:55:16 AM »

3600 acres as of 11:00 pm and only 5% contained.

MaxPower · « **Reply #8 on:** September 03, 2012, 11:05:11 AM »

That is just horrible! I guess the only good thing is the news stated that the direction the fire is going there are no improvements/homes in the way. Tough going for the ground crews though.