Texas artist Joey Walden holds a copy of one of the paintings that he lost in the Spicewood fire that destroyed several dozen homes in Spicewood, TX on Labor Day, 2011.

At the Bluebird Fire near Meeker, CO, a firefigher saws down a burning tree.

A Connecticut firefighter working in Colorado tries to get some rest on the school bus that carried the firefighters between fires that were often hundreds of miles apart.

Connecticut wildland firefighters march into the Crazy Woman Fire near Buffalo, Wyoming.

Two firefighters in Colorado react to the news that they will get their first chance to bathe in a week.

Wildland firefighters from Connecticut fill out the paperwork after arriving in Colorado to work on fires there.

A prisoner firefighter at the Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, CT , runs from an exploding wildfire he, along with other prisoners, were attempting to contain on the prison grounds.

A slurry bomber drops its load on the Four Mile Fire in Boulder Colorado, where some 170 homes were destroyed on Labor Day, 2010.

A New Britain, CT girl looks through the remains of her home for clothes and toys after her mother attempted to murder her father by dousing his bed with gasoline and igniting it while he slept. He escaped and rescued his wife and children.

A students at the Hebrew Reali school in Haifa, Israel, attaches a paper airplane he has folded to a balloon as part of a ceremony honoring Elad Riven, a 16-year-old student at the school who was killed in the Mount Carmel wildfire on the first day of Hanukkah, 2010. The school prepares students for their mandatory military service in Israel. Elad Riven had dreamed of being a pilot and often folded paper airplanes.

Joey Walden reacts after visiting the ruins of the studio he kept in a friend's house that was destroyed in the Spicewood fire on Labor Day, 2011. Walden was preparing for a show of his paintings, all of which were destroyed in the fire.