Without a doubt, The La Canada Station Fire has been a spectacle to behold. As I’ve been watching the Station Fire swallow the Angeles Crest Forest, one of the more interesting vantage points has been the Mount Wilson Web Cam. Overlooking the Mt. Wilson Observatory (which was spared an untimely death), some of the most glorious images have come up. The web-cam went down for a few days, however, I’m happy to report it came back alive.

Over the last week, I managed to gather several AMAZING screen caps of the web cam. My favorites are the last two; the blue image taken just at sunrise (I happened to be up at the time) and only a few minutes after the 3rd image and then the most recent one where you can actually see the observatory with the fire in the background below a star filled sky. Just breathtaking. The first two look like Mordor.