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City Fire with Thick Black Smoke at Dusk (San Jose del Cabo, 2023)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Urban San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2023
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About this clip

A large fire burns in the distance, producing thick black smoke. The city below is illuminated by numerous lights at dusk. The smoke rises into the darkening sky above the urban area.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Usable for documentary, news-style, social, or agency edits needing a San Jose del Cabo aerial of an urban fire with smoke at dusk.
Edit role
A six-second dramatic cutaway or transition beat that can mark an emergency, disaster, or environmental threat within a Mexico city sequence.
Visual details
City lights fill the lower frame while an orange fire burns in the distance, sending a thick black smoke column into a blue dusk sky with dark hills on the horizon and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The frames support an elevated drone-style aerial composition, with dense buildings in the foreground, the fire in the midground, and a low mountain horizon behind the smoke.

Tags

cityfiresmokeblack smokedusknighturbanlightsbuildingsaerialemergencyflamesdark skycityscapewildfireaerial viewdisasterilluminated buildingsdrone

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.265 (HEVC) MP4
File size
91 MB
Location
San Jose Del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2023
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Aerial dusk view over San Jose del Cabo with city lights below, orange flames in the distance, a black smoke plume rising, hills on the horizon, and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the fire glowing beyond the city lights as smoke climbs into the darkening sky. (0:00)
Aerial view across San Jose del Cabo at dusk, with bright city lights in the foreground, a fire burning near the horizon, heavy black smoke spreading upward, and no visible people.
This frame keeps the fire centered against the horizon while the illuminated city fills the lower half of the shot. (0:01)
San Jose del Cabo city lights stretch across the foreground as orange flames burn in the midground and a dense black smoke column rises into the dark blue evening sky, with no visible people.
The frame emphasizes the scale of the smoke column above the lit urban grid. (0:02)
Wide dusk aerial of an urban fire with smoke over a lit city.

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