Southern California Wildfires

With multiple fires raging across the Southern California region, local newspapers have adopted mapping technology to help illustrate the extension of the disaster. 

• The Santa Clarita Daily News has a Google Map embedded on their site showing fire locations, mandatory evacuations and evacuation centers for areas within the Santa Clarita Valley. 
• The Los Angeles Times has a more extensive Google Maps application showing the fire locations across the southland:
  
  
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• KPBS Online is maintaining a Google Map for the fire situation in San Diego:

From the European Space Agency:

“Envisat captures the smoke arising from raging wildfires burning in Los Angeles, California. Image acquired 21 October 2007 at 18:20 UTC by the MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) instrument.”

Credits: ESA