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Page 1: California Wildfires

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Once more, triple-digit summer temperatures and dry conditions are fueling wildfires across California.

Getty photographer David McNew has been covering many of these fires for more than a decade, and has an eye for finding the visual beauty amid the horrible destruction and efforts to battle these blazes.

Gathered here are some of McNew’s compelling photographs of Californian wildfires over the past decade.

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A firefighter is silhouetted against flames at the Grand Prix Fire in the pre-dawn hours October 23, 2003 north of Fontana, California.

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Joshua trees burn as the Powerhouse fire makes a fast run toward Lake Hughes on June 1, 2013, south of Lake Hughes, California.

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A firefighting air tanker drops Phos-check fire retardant near firefighters cutting a line on a ridge in the steep and rugged terrain rising into the San Gabriel Mountains to fight the Sierra Fire on April 28, 2008, near Sierra Madre, California.

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A landscape glows immediately after the main fire front swept over in a fast run toward Lake Hughes on June 1, 2013, south of Lake Hughes, California.

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Tall flames rise behind a firefighting crew member at the Butte Fire on September 13, 2015, near San Andreas, California.

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A forest smolders with the Piute fire burning out of control on July 1, 2008, south of Isabella Lake, California.

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A Carson Super S-61 firefighting helicopter draws up water from Big Bear Lake on September 18, 2007, near Fawnskin, California.

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An air tanker drops fire retardant on the Troy Fire burning out of control east of Laguna Mountain on June 19, 2002, northeast of Pine Valley, California.

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Firefighters are forced to retreat as flames close in on them in Placerita Canyon at the Sand Fire on July 24, 2016, in Santa Clarita, California.

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Large flames are blown from burning mobile homes by strong wind as most of the homes in the Oakridge mobile home park, lie in ruins after burning in the Sylmar Fire on November 15, 2008, in Sylmar, California.

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The wind blows embers from a destroyed home that continues to burn in the early morning hours on May 7, 2009, in Santa Barbara, California.

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The landscape glows immediately after the main fire front swept over in a fast run toward Lake Hughes on June 1, 2013, south of Lake Hughes, California.

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A strong wind blows embers from a burning tree trunk in Lost Valley on the night of July 17 and into the morning of July 18, 2003, six miles northeast of Warner Springs, California.

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A mule deer walks through the charred remains of an oak forest at the Springs fire on May 4, 2013, near Camarillo, California.

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Flames rise near a firefighter as the Powerhouse fire makes a fast run toward Lake Hughes on June 1, 2013, south of Lake Hughes, California.

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The landscape glows immediately after the main fire front swept over in a fast run toward Lake Hughes on June 1, 2013 south of Lake Hughes, California.

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Residents watch as fire comes close to their homes on November 15, 2008, in Yorba Linda, California.

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A U.S. Forest Service firefighter uses a pistol to fire flares into brush to set a backfire to control the Woodhouse fire, in San Timoteo Canyon on October 6, 2005, near Calimesa, in Riverside County, California.

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Flames are reflected in a backyard swimming pool at the Sand Fire on July 23 2016, near Santa Clarita, California.

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Embers fall from a burning tree in Placerita Canyon at the Sand Fire on July 24, 2016, in Santa Clarita, California.

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A firefighting aircraft, drops water on the Warm Fire after sunset on August 16, 2015, in the Angeles National Forest north of Castaic, California.

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Flames rise at the Williams fire in the Angeles National Forest on September 4, 2012, north of Glendora, California.

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A fire-fighting helicopter drops green Hydromulch on Griffith Park hillsides on October 19, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.

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