A house by the Taieri Gorge Railway, near Mount Allan. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Smoke veils the Taieri Gorge valley system. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Cut-over forest burns. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Log winching equipment under threat. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Fire spreads from the cut area toward mature trees. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Craig Still at the rural fire control point. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
Graeme Still, principal Rural Fire officer. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
A helicopter is refuelled from a tanker. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
A pilot fills a monsoon bucket from the Taieri River. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
A pilot discharges a monsoon bucket. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
In the thick of it. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
Protecting the mature trees. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Protecting the mature trees. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Bucket-equipped helicopter viewed from above. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
The size of it: note the helicopter in the distance. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Helicopters Otago pilot Andy Baird. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
A bank of cloud (left) and the Mt Allan fire (boxed) photographed by the Nasa/GSFC satellite yesterday at 12.05pm.
Parents and pupils arrive at North East Valley Normal School yesterday morning surrounded by a haze of smoke. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Crossing the street at Kaikorai Primary School yesterday morning. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
North East Valley is bathed in an eerie glow as morning sun shines through smoke yesterday. Photo by Gerard O'Brien.
Looking towards the Chain Hills from Mosgiel. Photo by Allison Rudd.
The sun dulled by smoke over the Otago Peninsula. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
Smoke tints the sunset over Mosgiel last evening. Photo by Jane Dawber.
Otago Daily Times photographers Gerard O'Brien and Peter McIntosh captured these images of teams of helicopter pilots and ground-based firefighters working all day on the Mt Allan forest fire, and of smoke hanging in the skies over Dunedin city. Photo prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.