NASA’s Aqua satellite took high resolution images early Sunday of the long, sinewy smoke plumes wafting out to sea from large wildfires in the Brea-Yorba Linda-Corona area, and from Sylmar. The Orange County plume skirts the northern edge of the county and heads out to sea above the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in the South Bay. Smoke from the Sylmar fire combined with the flow from Orange County to create a large cloud. (Click image to enlarge.)
At the time the image was taken, says, NASA, ”the Sayre Fire north of San Fernando was 8,000 acres and 20 percent contained. The Freeway Fire was 5,800 acres and 5 percent contained. The following day, winds died down, and the fires’ ferocity ebbed.”
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NASA’s Aqua satellite took high resolution images early Sunday of the long, sinewy smoke plumes wafting out to sea from large wildfires in the Brea-Yorba Linda-Corona area, and from Sylmar. The Orange County plume skirts the northern edge of the county and heads out to sea above the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in the South Bay. Smoke from the Sylmar fire combined with the flow from Orange County to create a large cloud. (Click image to enlarge.)
