Grassfire in Iceland
Grassfire in Iceland
3April 2006
In western Iceland in late March 2006, a large fire broke out in the grasses of a wetlandarea, which had been dried out by a period of persistent north winds. According to localreports, some farmers in the area had to evacuate their livestock to protect them from thefast-moving, wind-driven blaze.
TERRA
30 March 2006
14:35 hrs UTC
(source: EarthObservatory)
In this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer(MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite on 30 March 2006, a long plume of smoke blows westward away from the fire, whose location is marked in red in the image.
