SEAN MASTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY

Fire

A firefighter faces a wall of flame that is about to jump its containment line near Riverside, California in late 2007.
   
A helicopter drops water onto a fire that tore through the Cleveland National Forest near Irvine, California.
   
Inmate firefighters retreat from a failed backfire in the Cleveland National Forest. 900 firefighters responded to the fire that destroyed over 5,000 acres.
     
  
Friends and neighbors gather to protect a home in San Pasqual, CA during one of the worst firestorms to ever occur in San Diego County.
   
A home in Rancho Bernardo burns during the October fires of 2007 in San Diego, California.
   
Inmate firefighters retreat from a failed backfire in the Cleveland National Forest. 900 firefighters responded to the fire that destroyed over 5,000 acres.
     
  
A stunned resident of Rancho Bernardo stands amid the ruins of a friend's home.
   
A number of kitchen items are a few of the only things that survived the inferno that ripped through the San Diego neighborhood of Rancho Bernardo in 2007.
   
A chimney is all that remains of a home destroyed in a fire that burnt through the Lake Tahoe region in 2007.
     
  
A telephone pole hangs from wires after being destroyed in a fire that burnt through the Lake Tahoe region in 2007.
   
A stand of trees near Lake Tahoe is burnt black after fires in the summer of 2007.