TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 6月16日 00時35分


When ISIS retreated from the broken plains south of Mosul last August, its militants did what defeated armies do in these parts: they scorched the earth. A burning oil field serves many functions: it impedes the view of attacking warplanes, deprives the victor of treasure and, not least, summons visions of apocalypse. For Iraq’s weary oil-fire brigade, however, it’s just another day’s work. ⠀

The smoke blackens everything, from the wool of sheep in adjoining fields to the insides of refugees in nearby camps. There, doctors report tar in the lungs of people who have never smoked.⠀

In recent months as the fire brigade wearily extinguished one well after another, and prepared to resume their duties at working wells, they harbored no illusion that their work was complete. ⠀

Here, the firefighters—actually engineers for the Iraqi government–owned North Oil Co.—take refuge in a sheet metal hut to protect themselves in Qayyarah on Jan. 18, 2017.⠀

Read more at TIME.com and in this week's issue. ⠀

Photograph by @edouard_elias.


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