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The wildfire activity in Victoria, Australia, continued to worsen on Thursday, January 26, 2006. According to news reports, the fire in the Grampians National Park, pictured here, intensified and spotted beyond containment lines that firefighters had created to check the blaze. The fire, marked with red boxes, was sending a thick plume of smoke southeast across Bass Strait and Tasmania when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. Several additional fires were burning in the state, some of which threatened nearby towns.
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Published January 26, 2006 Data acquired January 26, 2006