Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler.

This is an update to California Fire Update: Station Fire 1:30 pm, Pacific Time 8-28-09 at http://www.opednews.com/articles/California-Fire-Update-St-by-Meryl-Ann-Butler-090828-821.html

This morning I had less visiblilty than ever, and could not see the Burbank airport out my front window, which is about 3-4 miles away, in the valley.

A glance past the trees in the backyard at about 3 pm Pacific Time revealed lots of smoke billowing up from the Station Fire, first reported at 3:30 pm on Aug. 26.

Helicopters and planes have been nonstop, but they look like tiny specs against the billowing smoke.

At 3:15, the LA times said, “Flames are growing closer to homes. The neighborhood north of Santa Carlotta Street in Glendale is under evacuation orders. Mandatory evacuations were ordered in the northern edges of La Cañada Flintridge and northwest Altadena. Flames were pushing northeast toward Big Tujunga Canyon; north to Mt. Wilson; south to Glendale; southeast toward Altadena.” http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-la-fire-map-html,0,7464337.htmlstory

Photos above and below are 3:30 pm, Pacific Time, Sat Aug. 29, 2009.

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Left)

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Center)

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Right)

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Panorama Left)

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Panorama Center Left)

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Panorama Center Rt)

Station Fire 3:30 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Panorama Right )

Photos above taken approx 6-8 miles west of the fire, which now spans an area that looks to be at least 10 miles across, according to the map at the link above. The fire area shown on today's map covers about five times the area shown on yesterday's map.

4:30 pm photos added at 4:51 pm:

Station Fire 4:40 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Left)

Station Fire 4:40 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Center)

Station Fire 4:40 pm 8-29-09. Photo Meryl Ann Butler. (Right)

(Added 08-31-09: See fire update, "Station Fire Claims 2 Firefighters", 18 homes at click here

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Author's Bio: Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, and educator who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled enlightenment for the past two decades. See her YouTube video, "Visionary Artist Meryl Ann Butler on Creativity and Joy" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGs2r_66QE A NYC native, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006). They don't call quilts "comforters" for nothing! www.90minutequilts.com Archived articles www.opednews.com/author/author1820.html Older archived articles, from before May 2005 are here.,

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