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Heat Fuels Fire at Fort McMurray

Unusually warm temperatures were part of the fire weather that spurred flames to spread through Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen using data from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LPDAAC). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 7, 2016
Data acquired April 26 - May 3, 2016

Sources:
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Terra > MODIS