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Hurricane Irene Dampens Great Dismal Swamp Fire

These detailed images from August 15 show a large, hard-to-access wildfire burning in Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp. Firefighters hoped that rain from Hurricane Irene would slow the fire.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Hurricane Irene Dampens Great Dismal Swamp Fire.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 29, 2011
Data acquired August 15, 2011

Source:: Landsat 5 > TM