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		consumer451 on Jan 8, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL... NASA's FIRMS site shows the scale of both fires. They are huge given their proximity to the city. https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@-118.57,3...

perihelions on Jan 9, 2025 [–]

Note that some of the small flagged regions are spurious triggers on industrial waste heat (oil refineries, power plants, and something else). There aren't as many fires as that map naively would suggest.

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