Station Fire plume timelapse, August 29, 2009:

The La Canada Station Fire's smoke plume is visible all over southern California. Here you can watch it literally explode into a pyrocumulous cloud in the second shot. These two timelapse shots were captured via digital camera and are presented around 75x actual speed (a little over a minute of actual time per second of viewing). The mushroom cloud effect is amazing evidence of the fire's power. Also amazing is how fast the plume moves, even when viewed from many, many miles away.

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