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Nighttime Fire and Smoke Over Cityscape (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 shows a fire burning in the distance, producing red light and smoke. The fire is near a city with illuminated buildings and streets. The surrounding area includes dark hills under a cloudy sky.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Documentary, news-style, agency mood reel, or social edit needing a 2023 San Jose del Cabo nighttime aerial of a distant urban fire with smoke over city lights.
Edit role
A six-second cutaway or transition beat for moving from normal city coverage into emergency, disaster, or aftermath context without showing crowds or responders.
Visual details
A red-orange fire burns beyond an illuminated city at night, smoke rises into a dark cloudy sky, hills sit on the horizon, and no people are visible.
Shot mechanics
The frames read as a distant aerial composition, with dark foreground terrain, city lights across the midground, the fire near the upper left to center, and hills under low clouds in the background.

Tags

firesmokecitynighttimeurbanlightsreddarkskyhillscityscapenightaerialplumebuildingsemergencyglowdisasterdrone

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.

At 0:00, a distant fire glows red above San Jose del Cabo city lights at night, with dark hills and clouds in the background and no visible people.
The opening frame establishes the fire as a bright red source beyond the nighttime city grid. (0:00)
At 0:01, the red fire and smoke sit beyond the illuminated San Jose del Cabo urban area, with scattered lights below and no visible people.
This frame keeps the fire high in the view while the city lights define the scale beneath it. (0:01)
At 0:02, a red-lit smoke plume rises from the fire beyond San Jose del Cabo, with the city lights spread across the lower frame and no visible people.
The frame emphasizes the vertical smoke plume against the low dark cloud layer. (0:02)
At 0:03, the distant fire burns near the left side of the San Jose del Cabo night skyline, with dark terrain in front and no visible people.
This moment gives a slightly wider-feeling view of the city lights around the fire glow. (0:03)

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