Wildfires Strike California
October 28, 2003
Several massive wildfires were raging across southern California over the weekend of October 25, 2003. Whipped by the hot, dry Santa Ana winds that blow toward the coast from interior deserts, at least one fire grew 10,000 acres in just 6 hours. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this image of the fires and clouds of smoke spreading over the region on October 26, 2003. The red polygons indicate precisely where the fires are burning, or have recently burned.
Topics:
Disaster Accident, Environment, Wildfire, Occupational safety and health, Ecological succession, Weather, Terra, Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Santa Ana winds, Wildland fire suppression
