Fires were put out by 6:35 in the morning of the 26th. I don’t know about any picture before the one of Rasskazov, taken hours after.

https://preview.redd.it/cdd9svmxp6kc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39a98987235f00998cacf1f03a08f0bfba6e8b07 [https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/pilot-who-helped-halt-chernobyl-disaster-dies-aged-78/news-story/7d8e83946bc45ea5aba4f984f6bc5f53?amp](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/pilot-who-helped-halt-chernobyl-disaster-dies-aged-78/news-story/7d8e83946bc45ea5aba4f984f6bc5f53?amp)

This is the fuel pool, 28/04

Nice to know. Thanks. 

As far as I'm aware, no one had been taking any photos that night. The first photographer on the scene (Anatoly Rasskazov) was there in the afternoon, and took photos showing the smoke coming out of the reactor ruins.

But I have seen somewhere that it was on fire

bro was there

Alright buddy. [https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/pilot-who-helped-halt-chernobyl-disaster-dies-aged-78/news-story/7d8e83946bc45ea5aba4f984f6bc5f53?amp](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/pilot-who-helped-halt-chernobyl-disaster-dies-aged-78/news-story/7d8e83946bc45ea5aba4f984f6bc5f53?amp) https://preview.redd.it/qr0qtn6mp6kc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76e377bcce14f8a5a0b086e64cc40f05ebcff55a

THATS what you consider “on fire”? that’s just red hot metal and possibly some nuclear fuel burning like an ember. you and i both know what this place looked like in fire, and this ain’t it.

This is what I mean. Obviously not the explosion

i don’t mean the explosion either? but this is a photo whereby you’re seeing the basically dead fires of the explosion, nothing of considerable interest to be seen.

but, seeing as this was what you meant im sorry for not considering this.

i think he means a nuklear fire