June 9, 2001.  Modesto, California.

"As luck had it, I'd walked right into the command post for the Modesto Fire Department. After listening to the firefighters plan their attack on the blaze, I got a few shots of Jerardo Avila laying hose over the bank before scrambling back down into the floodplain for the remainder of my stay at the scene."

photo by Ted Benson, copyright 2001 Modesto Bee, used by permission

Tidewater Southern Railway

Burning of the Tuolumne River Bridge