Satellite images of the California wildfires

Satellite images from January 6th to 8th show just how quickly the California wildfires spread and the sheer scale of the devastation.

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00:00Satellite images show us just how devastating the LA fires have been.

00:10This image from Planet Labs from January 7th clearly shows the very start of the Palisades

00:16fire. But by January 8th, before and after images from Maxar begin to show us the damage to property

00:23close up. This image is from the Altadena neighbourhood where the Eaton fire took hold.

00:29Smoke began to obscure most of LA but shortwave infrared imagery can pick out

00:33fires raging on the ground. These are before and after images again from the Altadena area.

00:41Every orange glow is an active fire.

00:47And in these images from Planet Labs, everything that appears red is healthy vegetation and you

00:52can see by January 8th the brown areas are everything that has burned. On January the

00:589th, six separate wildfires were still burning in Los Angeles County.