A large brush fire in southern Washington state burned over
150,000 acres on June 28th and 29th, 2000. Ignited by a car
crash, the fire was burning near the Hanford nuclear
reservation, although it had not released any radioactivity
by afternoon on the 29th.
The image above was aquired by a NOAA Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) at 4:30 PDT
June 28, 2000. The smoke plume was relatively small and
thin compared to a forest fire of the same size.
For current GOES images of the Pacific, see the
Public Use of Remote Sensing Data GOES Archive.
(Image by the GOES Projedct Science Office based on data
from NOAA.)