The Station Fire, which has expanded to at least 35,200 acres, leaped over the San Gabriel mountains Sunday, is prompting more evacuations. Firefighters have been pulled away from Mount Wilson, where critical broadcast towers for many television and radio stations are located, including KTLA. Fire officials expect the mountain to be overrun with fire by 7:00 p.m. Sunday, indicating a probable outage for local broadcast news outlets.
List of Mt. Wilson Transmission Towers Includes:
KPFK(FM) 90.7 mhz (110,000 watts)
KBIG(FM) 104.3 mhz (105,000 watts)
KLOS(FM) 95.5 mhz (63,000 watts)
KTWV(FM) 94.7 mhz (58,000 watts)
KRTH(FM) 101.1 mhz (51,000 watts)
KCMG(FM) 92.3 mhz (43,000 watts)
KLVE(FM) 107.5 mhz (29,500 watts)
KCBS(FM) 93.1 mhz (28,500 watts)
KPWR(FM) 105.9 mhz (25,000 watts)
KLSX(FM) 97.1 mhz (20,900 watts)
KZLA(FM) 93.9 mhz (18,700 watts)
KMZT(FM) 105.1 mhz (17,600 watts)
KPCC(FM) 89.3 FM (600 watts)TELEVISION STATIONS
KCOP(TV) Ch. 13 (162,000 watts)
KTTV(TV) Ch. 11 (166,000 watts)
KCAL(TV) Ch. 9 (141,000 watts)
KABC(TV) Ch. 7 (159,000 watts)
KTLA(TV) Ch. 5 (44,700 watts)
KNBC(TV) Ch. 4 (44,700 watts)
KCBS(TV): Ch. 2 (36,300 watts)
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If California would enlist the help of outside firefighters, they could get more done faster. Also don’t let the tree huggers have their way on what private citizens can or cannot do. If people would trim out from their homes and create a personal fire line it would do alot to help in the fire situtation as a whole. But people don’t always see things from a firefighters view.