Residents Cody Najera, right, and Arizona Erb look through the remains of their burned home in Greenville, California, on 4 September. “I don’t want to say that it’s forgotten, but the news cycle moves pretty quickly, so it was really important to me to keep this in people’s faces and keep that picture going.” “I know there’s a lot of other stuff going on as well, but I just couldn’t believe that people weren’t jumping on the chance to go and photograph residents returning home in the Greenville area,” Edelson said. When Greenville burned, there was a huge column of ash that was just kind of towering over it, and that sort of pushed fire into the town.” Nobody expected fire to come into the Lake Tahoe basin, but it did,” Edelson said at one point in conversation with the Guardian. “It seems like every year they get worse or at least in this case, different. “So I really wanted to get that, especially since the Caldor fire, with the Lake Tahoe basin, has kind of, more taken over, or dominated, the headlines in terms of fire.” The Caldor fire has approached Lake Tahoe, though firefighters have made progress in battling the blaze. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images And, they might be visually striking images, but the emotional side of fires typically comes when people start returning home.”Ī family of deer wanders through burned rubble in Greenville, California, on Saturday. “Usually, when covering a wildfire, it’s actual fire, firefighters, people are evacuated. “I’ve wanted to get photos of residents coming home or to what’s left of their homes, because I feel like those are some of the only opportunities to get the most emotional visuals from a fire,” said Edelson, 42. Cantrell told Edelson that firefighters had found the dog and buried it on the property. The family dog had perished in the blaze. When Cantrell arrived at the pile of rubble, she discovered a small mound, with a sort of little cross on it. In one of Edelson’s photos, a woman named Riley Cantrell holds her face and cries as she surveys the charred remains of her mother’s home with her boyfriend, Bradley Fairbanks. The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also referred to as CAL FIRE, has not reported any fatalities or injuries.Wendy Weight, left, reacts while viewing the burned remains of her home in Greenville, California, on Saturday. The New York Times reported that 75% of Greenville structures were destroyed by the fire. In the dark hours on Wednesday, August, 4, the Dixie Fire in Northern California grew an additional 50,000 acres due to low relative humidity and strong winds - completely engulfing Greenville, a historic town in California. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Photos show the destruction of the historic California town Greenville. The Dixie Fire has ravaged Northern California for nearly a month and now ranks as the third-largest fire in California history.įlames engulfed an entire town in 30 minutes on Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP Photo/Noah Berger) The fire leveled multiple historic buildings and dozens of homes in central Greenville. Flames consume a home on Highway 89 as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug.
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