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City Fire with Rising Black Smoke at Night (San Jose del Cabo, 2023)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Urban San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2023
No people visible. No identifiable people are visible in this clip. Commercial clearance still depends on the final use and any property shown.

About this clip

A nighttime urban scene shows a large fire burning, emitting thick black smoke. The fire's red glow is visible against the dark sky, with city lights illuminating surrounding buildings. The smoke rises steadily, indicating an ongoing fire incident.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Fits documentary, news-style, agency mood reel, or social cut projects needing nighttime drone footage of an urban fire in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.
Edit role
Use this 6-second clip as an urgent cutaway, transition beat, or incident insert between wider city context and closer emergency coverage.
Visual details
A red fire burns near the edge of a lit city at night, sending thick black smoke into a dark sky over low buildings, roads, hills, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The frames support an aerial drone viewpoint with a high, wide composition, city lights in the foreground and midground, the fire near the horizon, and dark hills behind it.

Tags

cityfiresmokenighturbanaerialblackredglowlightsbuildingseveningduskemergencyflamesdarkskycityscapedrone

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.

Wide aerial night view over San Jose del Cabo with a red fire glowing near the horizon, black smoke rising above city lights, and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the fire as a bright red point beyond the lit urban foreground. (0:00)
Aerial view of San Jose del Cabo at night with dense city lights below, a red fire burning in the distance, a thick smoke column above it, and no visible people.
This frame keeps the city foreground visible while the smoke column dominates the horizon line. (0:01)
Night aerial panorama over San Jose del Cabo with illuminated streets and buildings leading toward a red fire, dark smoke spreading upward, and no visible people.
The third frame emphasizes the scale of the smoke compared with the surrounding city lights. (0:02)
City lights at night with a large smoke plume from a distant fire.

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