Times photographers Kent Nishimura and Brian van der Brug talk about shooting wildfires in a year when the blazes seem more destructive than ever.
We absorb the images — the charred remains of a homeowner’s paradise, a sweeping natural vista left blackened by towers of flame — and they are startling in their reality.
The recent West Coast blazes capped a fire streak that’s been unprecedented in its destructiveness and may grow worse in years to come.A firefighter is silhouetted against the flames of the Creek fire as it approaches the Shaver Lake Marina on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. At the SCU Lightning Complex fire, there was a photographer from AP, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle and myself. We were telling each other: “Hey, hey guys, look out.” There was a tree with embers, burned from inside at the base, and it could fall over at any moment. Falling trees are deadly, if not more deadly than the fires itself, just because they’re so unpredictable. Hearing this constant sound of trees crackling and shattering can be haunting.
A member of the Laguna Hotshots Crew fights the Creek fire as it approaches SoCal Edison’s Big Creek hydroelectric plant on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020, in Big Creek, Calif.: This past Labor Day weekend, I was with Marcio Sanchez from AP and we saw the Laguna Hotshots [an elite forest fighting crew] out of the Cleveland National Forest getting ready to do structural protection for plants.
Fire trucks drive over the Bidwell Bar Bridge in thick smoke from the Bear fire on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, in Oroville, Calif.
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