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The Palisades Fire ignites in the Pacific Palisades, just west of Los Angeles. Southern California is experiencing strong Santa Ana winds and is under critical fire weather conditions today.
Satellite images show smoke from Canadian wildfires over Western Europe on August 17, 2024. Emissions from the fires are expected to exceed those of every year since tracking began in 2003, except for the historically bad 2023 season. [6] Soot and ash from Jasper landed on the Athabasca Glacier, allowing the glacier to absorb more sunlight ...
A new satellite image captured by the European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), shows how smoke from the numerous fires has migrated across the North American continent.
The 2012 Chips Fire was a large wildfire in California's Plumas County. After igniting on July 29, the fire burned for 33 days and spread to 75,431 acres (30,526 hectares), or more than 118 square miles (310 square kilometres), before it was fully contained on August 31.
Due to wildfire emissions, Canada broke its record for annual carbon emissions in late June. [158] As of late August, the wildfires had released 327–355 megatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. [82] [159] The emissions from the fires were more than double Canada's planned emissions reductions from 2020–2030. [160]
Read more:Southern California wildfires: Maps, evacuations, shelters The Bridge fire, the largest of the four , was nearing 50,000 acres in size Wednesday afternoon, and was 0% contained. It began ...
Satellite imagery captured over California shows a number of wildfires raging across the state, with smoke visibly rising up from the fires.
Many major roads were closed as a result of fires and smoke. On October 22, the California Highway Patrol closed Interstate 15 in both directions between State Routes 78 and 56. [34] On October 24, 2007, the Ammo (Horno) Fire forced the closure of Interstate 5 as well as the Amtrak California Surfliner service between Oceanside and San Clemente ...