Our World: California Burning
BBC News | BBC World | 24 mins
In September 202 hundreds of campers were celebrating Labour Day at Mammoth Pools in California's Sierra National Forest. They had come for a leisurely bank holiday weekend, but within hours they found themselves trapped by California's largest single wildfire on record.
Using archive footage shot by the campers and compelling interviews with survivors and emergency services, this is the extraordinary story of the holidaymakers who were caught up in the inferno.
[Full film available on BBC iPlayer]
CREDITS
Produced & Directed by Oliver Englehart
Producer: Alice Boorman
Camera: Nina Ham
Editor: Paul Mullen
Executive Producers: Adam Grimley
International Exec: Sarah Waldron
Produced inhouse for BBC Current Affairs 2021
