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Camp Fire Still Raging in California

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Nov 13, 2018
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2018-11-12 00:00:00
November 12, 2018

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image of the Camp Fire on November 12, 2018. The fire started on November 8 and has become the deadliest in California history. More than 5,000 firefighters were battling the blaze, which was 30 percent contained as of November 13, 2018.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Caption by Kasha Patel.

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