Mount Wilson Expected To Burn

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It has just been announced by the Los Angeles County Fire Department all fire units have been pulled back and fire officials are expecting Mount Wilson to burn within two hours.

[oldies76]

Latest image from Wilson:

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm

Does not look good!!

[Jim Hilliker]

Gary Lycan, who writes the radio column for the Orange County Register emailed me about 5:30 pm saying that channel 7 was then saying the fire was to hit Mt. Wilson as of sunset or later tonight.   Gary was asking which FMs and TV stations would be affected, so I got the information for Gary from transmitter site expert Scott Fybush, and I don't think he'd mind me passing this on to you all tonight.

Jim Hilliker
Monterey, CA

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Fybush [mailto:scott@fybush.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:10 PM
To: Jim Hilliker; garylycan@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: FW: URGENT REQUEST/mt wilson fire

Hi Jim and Gary,


The following FMs are there (on Mount Wilson), though the stations with asterisks have
backup facilities at other sites:

89.3 KPCC, 91.5 KUSC, 92.3 KHHT, 93.1 KCBS-FM*, 93.9 KXOS*, 94.7 KTWV*,
95.5 KLOS, 97.1 KAMP*, 99.5 KKLA, 100.3 KSWD, 101.1 KRTH*, 101.9 KSCA,
102.7 KIIS, 103.5 KOST, 104.3 KBIG, 105.1 KKGO, 105.9 KPWR*, 107.5 KLVE

The following TVs are there or on adjacent Mount Harvard, and I know of
no backups:

2 KCBS, 4 KNBC, 5 KTLA, 6 KSFV-LP, 7 KABC, 9 KCAL, 11 KTTV, 13 KCOP, 18
KSCI, 22 KWHY, 28 KCET, 34 KMEX, 40 KTBN, 44 KXLA, 46 KFTR, 50 KOCE, 52
KVEA, 54 KAZA, 56 KDOC, 58 KLCS, 62 KRCA

[calwatch]

Isn't KPFK on Wilson as well or have they moved off?

[Scott Fybush]

Yes, KPFK is there as well, with no off-site aux. Knew I was forgetting someone...

[DavidEduardo]

Gary Lycan, who writes the radio column for the Orange County Register emailed me about 5:30 pm saying that channel 7 was then saying the fire was to hit Mt. Wilson as of sunset or later tonight.   

The movement slowed down considerably, per the lone person still up on wilson. There is retardant all around the site, and the brush cut back. There is hope that if the fire does come in too fast, the damage may be limited.

[groovyjohnnybravo]

From what I heard, KKLA has been using their back-up site on Flint Peak since yesterday afternoon.

[xmusicmatt]

40 KTBN

TBN is running a scroll on their satellite feed to pray that fire stays away from Mt Wilson and does not burn their transmitter site.

[DavidEduardo]

Oh yeah praying... thats SURE to produce results. Silly folk.

I was at TWR radio in Bonaire once when the 500 kw AM transmitter went off the air. The engineers prayed briefly, hit plate on and it went on the air. I can't argue with that.

[radiojomo]

This is what 98-7 just tweeted a few hours ago on Twitter:
987LA Remember! No matter wht happens, we'll b streaming live online@ http://987fm.com

I thought the 98.7 transmitter wasn't on Wilson, is it located nearby as well?