SOURCE: NASA – New NASA Satellite Images Show Fires’ Rapid Growth
Wildfires have been picking up speed since Sunday morning from Santa Barbara to San Diego. NASA’s satellite’s have been capturing the scene from the sky and the picture below is worth a thousands words.
The left image, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite at 11:35 a.m. local time, shows several fires giving off small plumes of smoke. Just over 3 hours later, at 2:50 p.m. when NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead, large amounts of smoke were pouring from blazes northwest of Los Angeles. Actively burning fires are outlined in red.
In the right image plumes of smoke can be seen blowing off the coast, indicating the intensity of the winds and the presence of additional fires farther south.
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its so bad we had a manitory evacuation
The USFS and other agencies like the DNRC, DEQ, and all the RVFD have turned wildfire into a multimillion dollar industry. They collectively waste OUR money watching the fires burn and then heroicly go in to save the day while peoples lives are destroyed, resources burn and wasted, and when all is said and done, they bury the surplus in the ground. Individually, the firefighters are putting their lives on the line, but the supervisors and others double their annual incomes during the fires and I have evidence that gigantic waste and over charges occur, and that it is more about making money than prevention. Firefighters will even start them to make a buck….count on it. Why did the tribes in Northern San Diego County know a week in advance that the conflagration was going to occur and they staged all the resources at the tribal hall in anticipation of this?
The fire was only few away from my place when I heard a neighbor’s car horn at 5 am – there wasn’t any alert by fire/police personnal at Bernardo Vista Del Lago at Monte Batalla and Pomerado Road in Rancho Bernardo.
i hope ever one there is ok