has failed America's families by not meaningfully protecting child farmworkers from dangers to their health and safety, including on tobacco farms," said Margaret Wurth, HRW children's-rights researcher and co-author of the report. They reported nausea, vomiting, headaches and other health problems associated with nicotine poisoning, known colloquially as green tobacco sickness, which is common among agricultural workers who absorb the toxic substance through their skin. New York City–based advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) interviewed more than 140 youngsters working on tobacco farms in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, where most American tobacco is sourced. Often there is falling rock and debris to watch out for, in addition to “snags” - wildland fire parlance for trees or limbs that are still burning at the stump or damaged and about to fall.Ĭhildren as young as 7 years old are suffering serious health problem from toiling long hours in tobacco fields to harvest pesticide-laced leaves for major cigarette brands, according to a report released Wednesday. This is, for me, a typical evening photographing fire.ĭeciding which fires to roll out on, accessing them, scouting the right spot, and hiking around steep hills and mountains at night in smouldering and unfamiliar terrain can be a challenge. I setup my tripod and made images as the fire danced vertically into the air, inexorably marching forward, towards more homes. Smoke hung low over the valley, enveloping the cities in an ashy cocoon as the Cocos Fire smoldered. In May I stood atop a mountain overlooking San Marcos and Escondido in San Diego County, alone and under the moonlight, with the distant roar of flame and fire engine siren lights in the valley below. On location, there is absolute calm and stillness in the burn area of a wildfire. Over the last two fire seasons, I’ve photographed wildfires in Southern California at night.
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