...there are about 30 images total and what makes it so interesting is that you can see from the camera's time stamp how very, very quickly the fire progressed.

No one was hurt, but there was a grandmother, daughter and two small children living in the house. I was just driving by and saw the fire at the beginning off of a dirt road and told the people I was with that we had to stop and go to help.

Which we did.

But the ethics of the situation were complex also...I knew that I also wanted to take pictures...The problem was that the Grandmother insisted on standing there with a small garden hose only slightly wetting the two large propane tanks by her house...I told her they may blow and kill her so I took over the hosing until the fire dept arrived, though by then it was far too late to save anything. On the other hand, the propane tanks never did explode.

HumThen I picked up the camera, but still was a little ashamed at photographing another person's misery. Life is tough, and so is ethics.

This was originally a color image converted in PS with added contrast and curves.