This is a really cool website that I found reading about the fire on-line. It has pictures from NASA satellites of different natural hazards. Besides the current Southern California fires, you can look at ash plumes from volcanoes or dust storms from the Sahara over Italy. Clicking on the pictures gives you huge high quality images.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=storm