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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:41 PM
Tue - October 28, 2003
Beautiful But Deadly
Satellites capture stunning images of
California's fires.
I'd
seen the news reports and had spoken with my parents in Los Angeles, but nothing
drove home to me the size and the ferocity of the fires burning in southern
California like this
photograph taken by a NASA satellite. The resolution is 250
meters.
With the debt and the challenges we have in this state, and with a new governor about to take office, we needed these fires like a hole in the head. The idea that some of them may have been arson is beyond belief.
My parents live about 10 miles from one of the fires. Even at that distance, they report that soot is falling like snow and that quarter-sized embers occasionally drift down in their street. It's amazing that only 15 people have died so far.