Fires in USA
Fires in the USA
23 April 2007
Sweat Farm Road Fire, Georgia
The Sweat Farm Road Fire continued to burn southwest of the town of Waycross, Georgia, on19 April 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image. The locations where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. A plume of smoke spreads southwest across the state line, over Lake City, across the Suwannee River, and out to Apalachee Bay.
TERRA
19 April 2007
On 20 April, the Southern Area Coordination Center reported that the fire was about 25,000 acres and 30 percentcontained. Erratic winds on the 19th caused the fire to be very active, racing through pine tree plantations and throwing off ten-foot flames off the tops of the youngtrees. Two thousand additional homes were evacuated in southern Waycross (nearly 800 had been evacuated in previousdays), and forecasts indicated that the fire would be active to veryactive on the 20th.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters perpixel.
(source: EarthObservatory)
