The air from the Pacific Ocean, having flowed smoothly over the Los Angeles Basin, rises undisturbed and unruffled over the mountains. Wilson obsolete, but the campus is still a destination for astronomers and stargazers, who for decades have been drawn by its famed “seeing,” a shared term of appreciation for the quality of light that defines Los Angeles. Other observatories - in the high plains of Chile, in orbit around the Earth - have rendered Mt. “With cooperation and with the weather today - and in conjunction with water drops and hand crews putting containment lines down with the bulldozer - hopefully we can get better containment of the fire today,” he said. Dantic said he hoped crews could keep the observatory complex safe. The Los Angeles County Fire Department was prepping for the worst Monday night. In 2017, a much smaller brush fire threatened to damage the mountaintop observatory and an array of television broadcast towers, prompting evacuations. The Station fire posed a major threat to the observatory, but it survived. Those systems include a water tank connected to a high-pressure pump built in 1970 and last used when the observatory was rescued from the snarling flames of the Station fire in 2009 after a firefight that lasted five days and four nights. More than three dozen firefighters are now familiar with emergency firefighting systems and backup electric generators strategically located across the property, which is perched on a 5,710-foot mountain shaded by pine and oak trees. Wilson officials tweeted Monday night that it was “knocking on our door,” noting that all observatory personnel had been evacuated.ĭavid Cendejas, superintendent of the complex that houses 18 astronomical wonders, including the 100-inch Hooker telescope, said Monday that firefighters were on hand, ready to do battle with the monster fire, which has swelled to more than 41,000 acres.
The fire has been burning closer and closer to the observatory for days.
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