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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC
On March 27, 2004, a wind-driven forest fire was burning out of control in central Portugal.
On March 27, 2004, a wind-driven forest fire was burning out of control in central Portugal, forcing evacuations of children and the elderly as a precaution. Several hundred firefighters were battling the blaze, which reportedly broke out in a eucalyptus grove. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from March 27, shows the fire marked in yellow with a red outline toward the bottom left of the image. The fire is burning east of the Ria de Aveiro Lagoon on the Portuguese coast. Additional fires were detected in the scene as well, but these may be agricultural, and not wildfires.
Metadata
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Sensor
Aqua/MODIS -
Start Date
2004-03-27 -
Event Start Date
2004-03-27 -
NH Image ID
12042 -
NH Event ID
10322 -
NH Posting Date
2004-03-30