#PalisadesFire Current view from Topanga Peak camera, showing the smoke plume on the fire blowing out towards the ocean. You can view the camera here https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2764 1/11/25 0616
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#PalisadesFire Current view from Topanga Peak camera, showing the smoke plume on the fire blowing out towards the ocean. You can view the camera here https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2764 1/11/25 0616
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AI6YR Ben
In response to this postOff topic, but the tower you see in that image is the abandoned AT&T Microwave Tower on Topanga Ridge. Looks like they have set up equipment around the base, probably for the fire.
Wired: The Abandoned Microwave Towers That Once Linked the US
AT&T made history 63 years ago when it launched the $40 million microwave radio-relay skyway, a network of 107 microwave towers.
https://www.wired.com/2015/03/spencer-harding-the-long-lines/
#communications #att #topanga
Helco is requesting two Type II helicopters from either LA or VNC, immediate need. 1/11/25 0630 #PalisadesFire
by AI6YR Ben ;
@ai6yr @mattblaze has some great discussions and pictures of these towers. https://federate.social/@mattblaze/113431094747361490
by __josh ;
@ai6yr I love seeing these things IRL, Wish they could be repurposed full time somehow.
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