With all the fires around Southern California, it can be difficult to keep up with which ones are located where, and what new areas are being threatened.

The Los Angeles Times has created on its Web site a special Google Maps interactive map of the Southern California wildfires; you can find it here: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-la-fire-map-html,0,7464337.htmlstory

Currently the map covers the fires now going on in these areas: La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Glendale, Pasadena, Altadena, and Big Tujunga Canyon.

Like other Google Maps, it lets you zoom in and pan around, and it has icons revealing the locations of the various fires. Clicking on a link below the image takes you to a larger Google Maps image that can be manipulated in more ways. What's more, the left-hand margin has links to stories and updates on the fires.

Late in the evening on Saturday, August 29th, the Los Angeles Times reported that "The Station fire in Angeles National Forest tripled in size today, spreading rapidly to the east and west and threatening at least 10,000 homes in a broad swath of foothill neighborhoods in areas including La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Glendale, Altadena and Big Tujunga Canyon as temperatures reached triple digits and flames drew closer to homes."