WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARED

While many Los Angeles residents began putting their lives back together in the weeks immediately following January's devastating fires, the men and women who sometimes spent days at a time battling the blazes were right back at work. LA fire stations receive up to 60 calls a day, on average, and are expected to execute 60-second turnout times from call to response, a fact Matthew Brookes became acutely aware of as he photographed a small subsection of the more than 7,000 first responders on the front lines of the Palisades and Eaton fires to document, and commemorate, their work.

ZACK RAFFIN