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   August 16, 2022 - Six Rivers Lightning Complex Fire   
      
      Six Rivers   
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      On August 5, 2022, thunderstorms rolled across the rugged, forested   
      mountains of Six Rivers National Forest in Humboldt and Trinity   
      Counties, located the northwest corner of California. Multiple   
      lightning strikes sparked twelve individual fires in the forests   
      located roughly between Redding and Eureka, California. Evacuations of   
      multiple at-risk locations began immediately.   
      
      Aggressive firefighting, focused on protecting public safety and full   
      suppression, reduced the number of individual fires to eight by August   
      6. Although all fires are being handled under the wider name of Six   
      Rivers Lightning Complex Fire, the eight individual fires were all   
      burning in the Six River National Forest and had the following names:   
      Waterman, Cedar, Bremer, Friday, Oak, Charlie, Corral, and Campbell.   
      The fires were burning in steep and sometimes nearly inaccessible   
      terrain with accumulated dead and downed timber from a winter ice   
      storm. A few days later, two more fires had been extinguished, leaving   
      only six individual areas within the Complex.   
      
      As of 9:00 p.m. EDT on August 15, the Six Rivers Lightning Complex Fire   
      had burned 20,052 Acres to become the second-largest fire in California   
      this year. This follows behind the McKinney Fire, which has burned more   
      than 60,000 acres in Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County since   
      July 29. According to Inciweb Incident Management System, the Six   
      Rivers Lightning Complex Fire was 19 percent contained on August 15,   
      with more than 2,000 personnel actively engaged fighting the fires. The   
      report stated that a strong inversion kept smoke low to the ground and   
      increasing through the morning hours, but in the afternoon northwest   
      winds allowed smoke to gradually lift from the northwest end of the   
      fire although smoke remained thick on the downwind side.   
      
      The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board   
      NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of the Six Rivers   
      Lightning Complex Fires on August 14. Red “hot spots” mark areas where   
      the thermal bands on the image detected high temperatures, which in   
      this case shows actively burning fire. Thick smoke—most of it so thick   
      that it obscures the land from view— covers roughly 5,370 square   
      kilometers (2,073 square mi). That’s larger than the state of Delaware.   
      A large but much thinner veil of smoke pours southwestward into the   
      Central Valley. Meanwhile, a thick bank of fog stretches over Eureka   
      and the coastal valleys west of the smoke and fire.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Aqua   
      Date Acquired: 8/14/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (49.6 KB),  500m (158.6 KB),  250m (453.6   
      KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-08-16   
       
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