The Station Fire continued to burn in unpopulated areas for weeks. Finally, after an unsualy October storm, fire crews are able to get the flames 100 percent surrounded. Rehabiliation crews are a...
As the more than 160,000 acre fire nears 80 percent containment, the social media team's Twitter and Facebook messages start to shift to post-fire activities.
As the days go on, crews begin making enough progress on the fire that rehabilitation teams make plans to go in. As the plans become available, the social media team sends out Twitter and Facebook...
The fire by now has burned more than 157,000 acres and is 51 percent contained. So firefighters can focus their efforts on the flame edges not near populated areas.
The Station Fire created towering cloud formations, which would collapse and then rebuild. This went on for days and then died down a bit. When the plumes kicked back up again, the fire's social ...
The fire has now burned more than 148,000 acres and is still less than half contained, but crews say they're making progress. The Twitter messages reflect that.
Fire officials announce the Station Fire has been determined to be arson. Almost immediately, the information is sent out via Twitter and Facebook by the fire's social media unit.
Social media team tweets about firefighter efforts around Mount Wilson, where many TV and radio stations have their transmitters. The fire came very close, but did not end up burning those transmi...
USFS social media team uses Twitter and Facebook to pass along pictures taken by firefighters and others on the fire lines. In the picture linked here, firefighters fight fire with fire near a Gle...
Station Fire social media team announces press conference where fire officials detail deaths of two Los Angeles County firefighters. The firefighters died when their vehicle overturned as flames o...
US Forest Service social media unit starts sending out Twitter and Facebook messages a few days into the Station Fire. This is the first major fire that the forest service has used such a unit, wh...
Investigators say the Station Fire was started by an arsonist along the Angeles Crest Highway, about one mile north of the Angeles Crest Ranger Station. Photo courtesy the US Forest Service.
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