Desert Angel fire

[Florian]

Hiked from tramway to SJ and back today. Nice day hiking. When i got down i stopped to watch the final stages of a small brush fire just north of Chino Canyon. Got a pretty good picture of the big super siphon helicopter doing a water drop ..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/4895318191/

Mouse-over the image to see some notes. Full size image is here ..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/4895318191/sizes/o/

-Florian

[scottmac]

The family and I watched it with lots of others for 30 minutes from across 111 this morning.

[Ulysses]

I'm a volunteer lookout for the Forest Service and was working at Tahquitz Peak on Sunday. I heard the response on the radio and had a bearing on the fire, but no visual. The firefighters referred to the area as "Angel Canyon" which I had never heard of and cannot locate on the SBNF map. Is this east of Chino Canyon? How far south of Hwy 111?

[Florian]

The fire was just north of Chino Canyon. There is a rock formation at the top of the drainage known as Desert Angel. Kind of looks like an angel with wings outstretched. If you look at my photo on flickr i noted the angel.

I'm sending you a PM re Tahquitz Peak lookout.

-Florian