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This is an extreme fire.

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The Bush Fire is an extreme fire.

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It's extreme in terms of the elevation and the topography

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and it's also extreme in terms of the fire weather.

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Fire weather is a mixture of
temperature, relative humidity,

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precipitation, near-term precipitation,
and wind speed.

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This is an extreme fire and that is significant,

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but what's even more significant is that we hear about

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these all the time.

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We hear about the
biggest fires in California or in

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Arizona and the next year they're
surpassed again by the biggest fires and

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the biggest fire season.

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For this particular Bush Fire, we can say it's

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redundant droughts or this is a drought.

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This is an extreme heat and drought, but

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we're having a lot of redundant droughts,
and when you have redundant droughts

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that's climate.

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So as we're seeing the Northern Hemisphere upper latitudes warm,

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we're seeing more of these extreme
events

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and this is definitely one of them.

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NASA provides pre-fire, active-fire, and post-fire information.

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So we established these
relationships in advance and the fire

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community, in many places, they use our
data and they downlink it directly.

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NASA also has a lot of resources that address
air quality and health.

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We're very connected as one Earth and NASA has the

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ability, horizontally and vertically, to

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tell this story, to pull this information
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