The Springs Fire is reflected on wet sand at the beach near the the Pacific Coast Highway and north of the Ventura County Line on May 2. The wind-driven wildfire raging along the California coast north of Los Angeles prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes and a university campus on Thursday as flames engulfed several farm buildings and recreational vehicles near threatened neighborhoods. (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters) (via Wildfires in California - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
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A wild image of an iced-over abandoned warehouse that caught fire in Chicago on Tuesday night. That white stuff is not weather related — the water that firefighters used to put out the blaze froze. — Heidi
Photo: John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune
Ice, After the Fire by metroblossom on Flickr.
A firefighter walks past trees on fire during a wildfire in Tabuyo del Monte near Leon, Spain, on Tuesday August 21, 2012. Some 500 soldiers have been deployed to help battle a wildfire authorities believe was started intentionally and which has burned 80 sq. kilometers (30. sq. miles) in northern Spain. (AP Photo/Pedro Armestre) (via Pictures of the Week: August 24, 2012Plog Photo Blog)
The sky turns a brilliant orange as smoke from the High Park Fire fills the sky near Laporte, Colorado, on June 10, 2012. (Reuters/Marc Piscotty) (via Western Wildfires - In Focus - The Atlantic)
cricket fire on Flickr.
Nothing like a big old fire after a game of cricket taken years ago.
This image is one of the 172 images that makes up my montage.
Jay Lukes (@1000Steps) asked for something from the “1993 Laguna Beach Fire in Laguna Beach CA”. That terrible fire destroyed more than 350 homes in a single day (more here). In this image: a single home sits virtually untouched in Laguna Beach, California, on October 28, 1993, after wildfires reduced neighboring homes, and hundreds of others, to rubble.
The Texas Forest Service undertook controlled burns on Sunday, April 17, 2011 to get rid of fuel on the mountains around McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, which were experiencing widespread forest fires. Here, Black Mountain is burning. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome is at right. (Frank Cianciolo/McDonald Observatory) (via 2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic)
Participants run towards the fire after The Man was set ablaze. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters) (via Burning Man at 25 years - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
I love the anarchy of the burn
