DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2330Z September 30, 2005
California: The Southern California fires of Topanga and Burbank have produced dense smoke that fanned out NW to NE across most of Ventura and N Los Angeles county and began to move into S and SE Kern county. However, cloud cover has moved in an obscured the view of the fires and smoke. A fire in C Tuolumne county near Yosemite Nat'l Park and the towns of Strawberry and Pinecrest is producing thin to moderately dense smoke that extends NE 75km to the CA/NV boarder and is on average 32km wide. Idaho: The Valley Road fire in eastern Elmore county is producing dense smoke that extends NE 111km and is on average 21km wide. Gallina