Crews probe point of origin as Station fire marches east
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 02:35
in Earth & Climate
At more than 150,000 acres, the fire is now the largest in L.A. County history. Firefighters are working to direct the eastern front away from homes in Pasadena, Monrovia and Sierra Madre. Fire investigators hunched under a scorched, 20-foot-tall oak tree off Angeles Crest Highway on Wednesday afternoon, using wire mesh sifters to search through the ash in an attempt to determine...