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   November 19, 2022 - Fires at Neah Bay, Washington   
      
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      In the early morning hours of November 17, 2022, residents living near   
      Hobuck Lake in Neah Bay, Washington reported seeing embers floating on   
      the wind. The smoking ash turned out to be the result of three   
      individual fires that ignited in Neah Bay that morning. Driven by   
      strong winds, the fires quickly burnt more than 140 acres and caused   
      evacuation of about 100 people, according to the Peninsula Daily News.   
      Both the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the   
      United States Coast Guard responded to aid firefighting.   
      
      On November 18, the fires had been sufficiently contained to permit   
      residents to return to their homes. The Cape Fire, which was the   
      largest and the fastest-growing in the outbreak, had burnt 100 acres   
      but had been reduced to 60 acres as of 11:00 a.m. local time. The   
      smallest fire, the Johnny Fire, had been quenched by the time it   
      reached two acres. The first fire discovered, called the Hobuck Lake   
      Fire, initially charged toward a residential area, but ended up burning   
      into nearby wetlands and was quenched. The cause of the fires is not   
      known.   
      
      On November 18, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer   
      (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of   
      the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. Red hot spots mark areas where the   
      thermal bands on the MODIS instrument detected high temperatures and   
      indicate actively burning fire. A long plume of gray smoke rises from   
      the fires and is being carried on strong wind more than 155 miles (250   
      km) westward over the Pacific Ocean.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 11/17/2022   
      Resolutions:  1km (85.1 KB),  500m (295.1 KB),  250m (930.8   
      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=2022-11-19   
       
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