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English: On July 8, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of smoke streaming from the Alamo fire. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red. Through July 10, 2017, the fire had charred roughly 30,000 acres (100 square kilometers) in San Luis Obispo County, California. Meanwhile, the Whittier fire, near Cachuma Lake (Santa Barbara County) had scorched 10,000 acres.
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