Please consider reading about Angeles N.F. hotshot Fernando Allende's battle with cancer, and donating to the GoFundMe. The link can be found on our linksite, lm7.us. We wish him a full recovery, and safety for all of our wildland firefighters

PSA! 👀

Another mysterious Roadside Memorial added to our ever-growing database. On Google Street View history, we see it was established sometime in either 2022-2023 w letters now gone.

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#AngelesNF #AngelesNationalForest #Highway2

BREAKING NEWS: “NaturePing LLC” will be sponsoring a plan to deploy free WiFi to popular campsites and hiking destinations within the Angeles National Forest as soon as mid-2025. The initiative, co-sponsored by major social media networks including Meta and TikTok, [cont. below]

Great collaboration here between the Takataka Club and Women Forage SoCal! See you there. RSVP link: www.eventbrite.com/e/takataka-c...

And finally, a beautiful drop with the system on an actual fire above Palm Springs:

This is what it looks like in action:

Here's a clip from the Department of Defense showing part of the conversion process: the tank being loaded (into a Lockheed C-130 Hercules in this case)

What is this plane clearly marked “USAF” (United States Air Force) doing on a SoCal fire, you ask?

Some views from the #HughesFire yesterday thanks to an obnoxiously-heavy lens