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California Ablaze

Caption: This Envisat image captures fierce easterly desert winds blowing smoke from wildfires in Southern California. Gale-force winds have fed more than a dozen fires from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border since breaking out on Sunday, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of a quarter of a million people. Image acquired October 22, 2007, at 17:52 UTC by the MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) instrument aboard ESA's Envisat satellite while working in Full Resolution mode to provide a spatial resolution of 300 meters.

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