Station Fire's "pyrocumulus" smoke cloud looms over the Los Angeles basin
August 30, 2009

Downtown Los Angeles is in the lower right of the image. Beverly Hills is to the left.The fire is in the San Gabriel mountains east of the San Fernando Valley, burning from Glendale on the south to Acton in the north. At the time this image was made, the fire had consumed 45,000 acres and was 5% contained. Photo was taken from the top of Kenneth Hahn State Park on La Cienega Blvd. north of Stocker Street.
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