A line of fires stretched across the plains west of Dallas-Forth Worth on April 9, 2009, and strong winds were driving smoke plumes from the fires toward the cities.
A handful of fires in the Bío-Bío region of Chile were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite on January 13, 2007. The largest of the fires are near the coast, south of the Itata River.