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Passionate, personal and profoundly moving. TWITTER Writer-director Lucy Walker casts an immigrant's eye over California's catastrophic wildfires for this essayistic documentary. Bring Your Own Brigade isn't the first cinematic report on the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California, in 2018, or even the first one to screen at Sundance (Ron Howard's Rebuilding Paradise played at the festival in 2020). It almost certainly won't be the last film about the devastation wrought by uncontrolled wildfires, particularly in California, by a long shot. But it's probably the smartest, most interest...

Photograph: David McNew 4 out of 5 stars This California fires documentary is fuelled by curiosity for the infernos’ causes and deep empathy for their victims The LA-based British filmmaker Lucy Walker’s eye-opening and open-eyed doc Bring Your Own Brigade plunges us into the hell of the 2018 Camp and Woolsey fires in California before taking a discursive tour of the patterns and histories behind them. Throughout, the Oscar-nominated director of Countdown to Zero and Waste Land is never far from an startling eyewitness account. She sticks especially close to one resident...

Students from the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University received numerous awards at NMSU’s recent virtual Research and Creativity Week event. Eight civil engineering students presented their projects with four placing in the top 10 of all presentations. Clockwise from top left: New Mexico State University civil engineering students placed among the top 10 presentations at the recent virtual Research and Creativity Week event. Seyed Ali Aleali placed second for his project titled “Bio-inspired Laterally Expressive Deep Foundations: Numerica...

Hose runs out of water so they use the pool. >> then it's time to start running with five-gallon buckets and that's even more intense. you're already tired. >> reporter: who are you? >> just an old man! i'm just an old guy, man. >> reporter: just an old man that wanted to keep his home from burning up. >> yep. >> reporter: he recorded cell phone video as his home began to burn. >> feels good to have it. feels so sad for everyone, though. everybody i know lost everything. and it's sad. >> reporter: the camp fire tearing through northern california is now the most lethal fire in state history. r...