This is an incredible picture captured in California. The tree with a large diameter is burning from the inside out. The fire is noted to be inside the trunk, first seen at the base and further noted at the top of the trunk on the left side. The trunk is about to explode.

The photographer is not safe. The fire is raining down and noted to be surrounding him/her on the ground.

I realize it is important to catch exceptional pictures, but, please don't reward a photographer this decided to find something unique to sell in the photo. That photographer is lucky to be alive. A Go-Pro is a far better idea than a human being standing in a firestorm. The next danger might be another person, a young person, mimicking the daring event.

November 3, 2019
By Maria L. LaGanga

Healdsburg - The things that set California apart, (click here) for better or worse, were all there last Sunday afternoon: terrifying flames, wine country glamour and a rescue straight out of Hollywood. Captured via smartphone. Of course.

As John Viszlay and Dominic Foppoli watched, horrified, the Kincade fire crested the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains and headed straight for their adjoining vineyards. Winds gusted. Smoke swirled. At any moment, they realized, everything they’d worked for would be lost.

“We came within a couple hundred yards of the fire hitting and destroying our winery,” said Foppoli, who is also the mayor of nearby Windsor. It would have been a disaster, “if it wasn’t for a perfectly timed Hollywood scene, where the skies parted and a 747 supertanker … shows up out of the sky and blasts the fire.”...