Viewing the fire from space

Here are some amazing photos from NASA showing the smoke from this weekend's fires. From NASA:

A pair of images from NASA's Aqua satellite show the Los Angeles metropolitan area on Nov. 16, 2008. The top image posted on NASA's Web site shows the Southern California area as a vast plume of smoke billows out over the Pacific Ocean. The bottom image provides a closer view of the area around Los Angeles and two large fires burning there: the Freeway Complex Fire and the Sayre Fire.

Check out more images here.

-- Shelby Grad