Owen Brian Toon

2 months ago | thebulletin.org | Richard P. Turco |Owen Brian Toon |John Mecklin

Flashing red-orange flames pulsating against billowing black smoke. A landscape of homes reduced to ash and twisted rubble. Vehicles transfigured into grotesque sculptures scattered across streets. These scenes could have come from Hiroshima or Nagasaki after the atomic bombings in World War II. Instead, they are images recorded in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles affected by a recent wave of wildfires.