Envisat captures California ablaze

This Envisat image captures fierce easterly desert winds blowing smoke from wildfires in Southern California. Gale-force winds have fed more than a dozen fires from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border since breaking out on Sunday, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of a quarter of a million people.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM8U23Z28F_index_0.html

Time: 23. Oct. 2007

Feed: ESA Top News

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