Los Angeles Fires

My image of the Creek Fire burning in the Shadow Hills area of Los Angeles made this weeks LA Weekly cover.

Cover design by Darrick Rainey


Photo by Ted Soqui © 2017

City on fire.

Sand Fires Last Gasp

Firefighters and nature combine to end the brutal Sand Fire in Santa Clarita. The final back fires were set and nature added higher humidity to quash the last of the disastrous fire. The fire burned over 38,500 acres of land.
Here are some images from the Soledad Canyon area.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2016

The sun over the Vasquez Rocks.

Soledad Canyon.

Sign on Soledad Canyon.

Giant flames and firefighters.

Burn scar.

CalFire Plane Downed

A CalFire Grunman S-2T Type III airtanker went down today fighting the 130 acre Dog Rock fire in Yosemite's back country.
No word yet if the lone pilot survived the wreck. The CalFire firefighting pilots are the best of the best. They often fly so close to the terrain to drop their retardants, you can see them inside the cockpit. They are among the bravest pilots I have witnessed, and fly in the most treacherous of conditions equal to any wartime pilot.
The Grunman can accurately drop 1200 gallons of retardant on a wild fire, and are often the first defense called in.
This image was shot at the Colby fire in Glendora last January 16, 2014.

Photo by Ted Soqui © 2014

CalFire S-2T Airtanker.