NASA Aircraft to Aid Firefighting Effort

This NASA satellite image of the southern California wildfires, released Oct. 24, 2007, shows the area between Los Angeles and San Diego as captured by NASA’s Terra satellite at 2:25 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Fire activity is denoted with red pixels. Vast plumes of thick smoke are blowing out over the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/NASA)

(AP) -- NASA is flying an unmanned aircraft outfitted with high-tech imaging equipment to help firefighters battling wildfires raging across Southern California.

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