Thursday, April 28, 2005

Brush fire


Rich Dottellis of the Texas Forest Service back-burns a fire in Evadale on Thursday, April 28, 2005. Many small fires have blazed in the area due to dry underbrush conditions.

Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise


Award Winner:   2nd place, News photo, Hearst Honors April clip contest.

5 comments:

Laurie said...

Great picture!

Mark M. Hancock said...

Thanks.
Less than 2 seconds after this image, everything between us burst into flames. We both had to scramble in opposite directions.
:-(

Fayrouz said...

I love this picture. You're so good my husband.

Erik Bishoff said...

In my brief career I have yet to have covered a fire. My friends and I always joke that no Photojournalism portfolio is complete until you have some smoke and falmes.

Looks like it was exciting!

Mark M. Hancock said...

Actually, it was a boring little brush fire except for the two seconds immediately after this image.