Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Stunning fire photo has backstory

LAObserved, an online journal of media and place, asks whether this LA Times photo might capture a Pulitzer. <<[P]hotographer Karen Tapia-Anderson ... said that as she watched flames trap a dozen members of Engine Company 22, then saw them deploy their flimsy fire shelters as a last resort, she started to cry. "I felt that they weren't going to make it," she said. "I began to pray for those guys." After fifteen minutes they emerged one by one, a sight that Tapia-Anderson called "awesome." >>

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