This false-color image shows the Killmore East-Murrundindi Complex North Fire in the Cathedral Range Mountains of Victoria, Australia, on February 17, 2009.
Among the remaining fires still listed as “going” in the February 25 fire status report from the Victoria Department of Sustainability and the Environment was the 158,000-hectare (390,425-acre) Killmore East-Murrundindi North fire. This image of the fire was captured on February 25.
With the peak of fire season and a heatwave approaching, Victoria, Australia is bracing for more bush fires such as the two shown in this image from January 28.
One of a number of large wildfires that have affected northern California in 2012, the Chips fire burned more than 75,000 acres by the time firefighters had contained it.