Saturday, August 15, 2009

A Grim Google Map of California's Wildfires

For the hundreds of thousands of people who have been evacuated from the wildfires raging through Southern California, this isn't news. For those of you who live nearby, however, check out calfires.com, set up by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services. Fires blown by the notorious Santa Ana winds are more frequent than the major earthquakes that California is notorious for, and as the map shows, they're every bit as catastrophic.

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