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Gordon Pelletier

Fire burns bright red at night. Buildings lit in the foreground.

Photo credit:
Gordon Pelletier, c. 1998

Fire burning in hills. Smokey background. Children's swing set in foreground.

The day the fire jumped the valley.

Gordon Pelletier was working on the evacuation plan. He took photographs that the newspaper didn’t. He had a different perspective. He was looking after the townspeople.

Fire burns bright red at night. Buildings lit in the foreground.

The fire was in control.