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This is an extreme fire.
The Bush Fire is an extreme fire.
It's extreme in terms of the elevation and the topography
and it's also extreme in terms of the fire weather.
Fire weather is a mixture of temperature, relative humidity,
precipitation, near-term precipitation, and wind speed.
This is an extreme fire and that is significant,
but what's even more significant is that we hear about
these all the time.
We hear about the biggest fires in California or in
Arizona and the next year they're surpassed again by the biggest fires and
the biggest fire season.
For this particular Bush Fire, we can say it's
redundant droughts or this is a drought.
This is an extreme heat and drought, but
we're having a lot of redundant droughts, and when you have redundant droughts
that's climate.
So as we're seeing the Northern Hemisphere upper latitudes warm,
we're seeing more of these extreme events
and this is definitely one of them.
NASA provides pre-fire, active-fire, and post-fire information.
So we established these relationships in advance and the fire
community, in many places, they use our data and they downlink it directly.
NASA also has a lot of resources that address air quality and health.
We're very connected as one Earth and NASA has the
ability, horizontally and vertically, to
tell this story, to pull this information together.
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