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First Place
Mark Thiessen
National Geographic Magazine

"Under fire"


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Using terrain as a tool, a firefighter shoots flares onto a hillside, hoping to create a chimneylike effect: As heat from this fire rises, it should draw flames upslope, away from unburned forest below. But fire doesn't always cooperate.

 

 

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