I was born at St Luke Hospital in Pasadena, 50-odd years ago. It shut down two decades ago, and was subsequently used as a film location (most notably for The Bride's hospital scenes in Kill Bill v1; also many episodes of 24). Since then the art deco building has been neglected, and a target for theft and vandalism. Its facilities were damaged in the Eaton Fire last week, while devastation reigned all around it. I'm thousands of miles away, and can see the results via #SatellitePhotos. In the screenshot, you can see the ruins of The Terraces senior housing, the Pasadena Jewish Temple, and dozens of homes: just a small fraction of the thousands of homes and other structures destroyed by the wildfire in Altadena and Pasadena.

Maxar satellite image via https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/01/13/satellite-image-shows-whole-communities-destroyed-by-eaton-fire/

#Pasadena #EatonFire #LAfires

Stretching beneath the ground near the #GizaPyramid complex in #Egypt lie the remains of an ancient branch of the Nile River that might once have helped ancient Egyptians to build their #pyramids. #archeology #anicenthistory #satellitephotos

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01449-y