A 93,000 acre burn from space

NASA image shows the scar

October 18, 2011 at 10:54PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

NASA took this photo of the Pagami Creek fire on Oct. 10. The two legs of the burned out area were created by what fire fighiting officials call a lake shadow -- the lake blocked the progress fo the fire. It's burned nearly 93,000 acres.

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(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Josephine Marcotty

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Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.

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