Deadly Oklahoma megafire can be seen from space

[turbinetree]

Climate change is making wildfires more dangerous.
KYLA MANDEL APR 19, 2018, 2:00 PM

Wildfires burning in Oklahoma over the past week have claimed the lives of at least two people, injuring 20 others, and leaving dozens of homes destroyed. Images captured by the European Space Agency show the scale of the megafire — which as of Thursday was only 15 percent contained.

Firefighters continue to battle the blaze, with walls of flames reportedly reaching 70 feet at times. “You can’t even imagine the scale of how big they are, how fast they move, and how far they can jump ahead of themselves,” Tulsa Deputy Fire Chief Andy Teeter told Tusla World.

Western Oklahoma is currently suffering a severe drought. The hot and dry conditions have lead to the Rhea Fire — one of four wildfires at the moment — burning since April 12 and covering more than 260,000 acres. The wildfire has officially been called a “megafire” — the term used by the National Interagency Fire Center for wildfires that spread over more than 100,000 acres.

On April 13, the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2b satellite captured the immense scale of the megafire. The image shows the fire burning just south of Vici, a town of nearly 800 people northwest of Oklahoma City.

https://thinkprogress.org/oklahoma-megafire-seen-from-space-e5354e1dabea/

Did anyone get a phone call into the EPA chiefs sound proof telephone booth or better yet did someone call the worthless governor of the state to inform here that here and the former asshole that was suing the EPA for over ten years is full of shit...................

[riversedge]

1. While Pruitt plays his home state is burning.

[Hekate]

2. We already know the megafires in California were of no interest to Trump or Pruitt, but Oklahoma

...is a red state, so maybe Trump will at least show up to toss paper towel rolls at them.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Maybe the new NASA chief from OK

will be able to see it from space but that doesn't make him change his position on climate change. I guess the drought wasn't a result of climate change. What is going on with OK?!?!? Pruitt and now this guy.

http://www.newsweek.com/who-jim-bridenstine-climate-change-denier-trump-picked-head-nasa-660926
Like Trump, Bridensteine is an outspoken critic of climate science. In a 2016 interview he said the climate “has always changed,” citing “there were periods of time long before the internal combustion engine when the Earth was much warmer than it is today.”