July 30, 2002
In southern California, east of the fertile San Joaquin Valley, the McNalley Fire (red dots) continues to grow and threaten hundreds of residences as well as 11 of the ancient Giant Sequoia Groves in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Between Monday morning (July 29) and Tuesday evening (July 30), the fire grew from 73,000 to 83,000 acres and came within 2 miles of one of the Sequoia Groves. According to reports from the USDA Forest Service, the fire is expected to spread significantly to the east and north over the coming days.
This image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite.
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Image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA-GSFC
