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Distant Fire and Black Smoke Over Nighttime City

6s 4K UHD San Jose Del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2023
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About this clip

A large fire with black smoke burns in the distance from a city at night. The urban area is illuminated by numerous lights, and the fire's red flames and dark smoke are visible against the evening sky. The sequence shows the fire's steady burning and the city's nighttime lighting without significant movement.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Aerial nighttime fire footage for documentary, news-adjacent, emergency response, city safety, agency mood reel, or social edits needing San Jose del Cabo urban context with a distant blaze.
Edit role
Use this six-second clip as a tense cutaway, timeline beat, or transition between wider city coverage and closer incident reporting.
Visual details
A nighttime city grid fills the foreground and midground with white and amber lights, while red flames burn in the distance beneath a tall column of black smoke and no people are visible.

Tags

1915citynightfiresmokeurbanlightsaerialdarkblack smokered firecityscapeeveningemergencyburningflamescity lightsnight skydark skydrone

Shot slate

Resolution
4K UHD
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
Location
San Jose Del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Year filmed
2023
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

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

A wide aerial view of San Jose del Cabo at night shows city lights below, red flames in the distance, a dark smoke column rising into the evening sky, and no visible people.
The opening frame establishes the distant blaze beyond the illuminated city grid. (0:00)
At one second, the San Jose del Cabo city lights remain spread across the lower frame while the red fire glows near the horizon under a dense black smoke plume, with no visible people.
This frame holds on the fire's red glow against the darker hills and sky. (0:01)

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