California firefighter saves American flag from Dixie wildfire

Stunning photos show a California firefighter rescuing an American flag despite being surrounded by huge flames from the Dixie wildfire that razed much of a historic Gold Rush town overnight.

The unidentified firefighter was snapped carefully loading the Stars and Stripes and a pole it was attached to from a burning home in Greenville late Wednesday — with a massive fireball filling the frame behind him. The patriotic rescue came as flames made “their way down the street,” wrote the photographer, Josh Edelson, who also snapped numerous other images of the wildfire he said “ripped through and destroyed most of Greenville.”