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Hurricane Irene Dampens Great Dismal Swamp Fire

These detailed images from August 15 show a large, hard-to-access wildfire burning in Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp. Firefighters hoped that rain from Hurricane Irene would slow the fire.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 29, 2011
Data acquired August 15, 2011

Source:
Landsat 5 > TM