This image provided by NASA's Terra satellite on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009, shows a satellite image of the Station Fire burning in Southern California. The fire started on August 26 in La Canada Flintridge near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.,and soon grew to become the largest fire in Los Angeles County's history, consuming more than 160,000 acres (251 square miles), leaving behind a charred, blackened landscape (center area) as it spread eastward. Smoke from the actively burning area can be seen on the right hand side of the image. (AP Photo/NASA)AP – Firefighters are racing against the weather to clear brush before heat descends on Southern California, stoking the giant 15-day-old wildfire burning in the Angeles National Forest.

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