Drone images captured over the area display the sweeping devastation left behind as the Palisades fire tore through beachfront homes in Malibu. The photos, by SCNG staff photographer Jeff Gritchen, ...

The Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthiest communities in the U.S., is experiencing the worst fire in its history.

So I mounted a camera on a giant painter’s pole and headed out to the Palisades fire. I spent the previous day ... That means I’m often lying on the ground to take a picture or I’m climbing on a wall ...

National Geographic's staff photographer—who has decades of experience covering wildfires—weighs in on why the latest fires ...