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City Fire at Night with Thick Smoke Rising (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 nighttime aerial view of a city with numerous illuminated buildings. A large fire burns in the distance, producing thick black smoke that rises into the dark sky. The fire's flames and smoke are visible against the city lights below.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for documentary, news-style, agency mood reel, or social edits needing a night aerial of an urban fire in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico.
Edit role
A six-second cutaway or transition beat that can mark an emergency, disruption, or nighttime city sequence without needing visible crowds or close action.
Visual details
City lights fill the lower frame while orange flames burn in the distance and a dense black smoke plume rises into the dark sky, with no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The composition reads as drone aerial footage, with the city in the foreground and midground, the fire near the horizon line, and dark hills or landforms behind it.

Tags

citynightfiresmokelightsurbanaerialburningdarkskyflamesblack smokecityscapenighttimeemergencysmoke plumeilluminatedbuildingsdrone

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.

Night aerial view over San Jose Del Cabo with city lights below, a distant orange fire, thick black smoke rising, and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the fire glowing beyond the illuminated city at night. (0:00)
San Jose Del Cabo city lights spread across the lower frame while a large fire burns near the horizon and dark smoke rises above it, with no visible people.
This frame holds the wide aerial composition with the fire as the brightest point in the distance. (0:01)
A wide San Jose Del Cabo night view shows orange flames beyond the city lights, with a thick smoke column climbing into the dark sky and no visible people.
The fire and smoke remain prominent above the city grid in this mid-clip frame. (0:02)
San Jose Del Cabo appears as a dark aerial cityscape with scattered lights, a bright fire at the edge of town, heavy smoke overhead, and no visible people.
This frame emphasizes the scale of the smoke plume against the darker skyline. (0:03)

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