Fires in USA
Fires in the USA
18 May 2009
Jesusita Fire, California
Having burned an estimated 8,733 acres, theJesusita Fire in the Los Padres National Forest north of Santa Barbara, California, was about 95 percent contained on 15 May 2009. This natural-color image from the Advanced Land Imager on NASAs Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite shows the burned area on 13 May 2009. The marine clouds that hid the city from view during a previous overpass had cleared by this time, and the encroachment of the blaze into the outskirts of the Santa Barbara is obvious.
EO-1
13 May 2009
The large image provided above is at MODIS maximum spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel.
(source: earth observatory)
The current situation in the USA is covered by a number of detailed reports (see GFMC Media web page):
- There’s little agreement among policymakers on solutions to reducing fire risk (published by www.redding.com, 17 May 2009)
- Human-caused wildfires increase in Calif. (published by www.google.com, 14 May 2009)
- Winds hamper containment of Santa Barbara wildfire (published by www.mercurynews.com, 13 May 2009)
- Firefighters faced extreme fire behavior (published by www.thedailysound.com, 13 May 2009)
- Gusty winds forecast to return to SoCal fire area (published by www.mercurynews.com, 13 May 2009)
- Some At-Risk Youths Train As Firefighters (published by www.ksbw.com, 12 May 2009)
- US Forest Service to review Calif. wildfire fight (published by www.google.com, 12 May 2009)
- Area firefighters seeing increase in brush fire intensity due to dry conditions (published by www.naplesnews.com, 12 May 2009)
- California Fire Claims 77 Homes, Tools Suspected (published by planetark.org, 12 May 2009)
- Safety Measure Caused California Wildfire, Investigators Say (published by www.foxnews.com, 11 May 2009)
- Thousands return home as firefighters attack California blaze (published by www.abc.net.au, 10 May 2009)
- Cooler weather helps tame California blaze (published by www.jconline.com, 10 May 2009)
