Cabins that firefighters had covered in reflective structure wrap stand unburned after a firestorm swept through upper Slick Rock Canyon during the French Fire on August 26, 2021, near Wofford Heights, California. #

Newly absorbed personnel in the Afghan security forces take part in a military training exercise in the Bandejoy area of the Dara district in Panjshir province on August 21, 2021. Former Afghan government forces forming a resistance movement in a fortified valley are preparing for "long-term conflict," but are also seeking to negotiate with the Taliban, their spokesperson Ali Maisam Nazary told the AFP in an interview. #

Members of the U.S. Naval Academy's 2023 midshipmen's class work to scale the Herndon Monument and place an upperclassman’s hat on the 21-foot obelisk on August 22, 2021, in Annapolis, Maryland. The class of 2023 resumed the 70-year tradition of replacing a Dixie cup sailor's cap atop the monument with an upperclassman’s hat following its cancellation in 2020 due to the pandemic. #

Rowan Crothers of Team Australia reacts following his win in the men's S10 50-meter freestyle final at the Tokyo Aquatics Center on day one of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on August 25, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. #

Team Britain faces off against Team Algeria during the men's wheelchair-basketball preliminaries, part of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, on August 26, 2021. #

Amarilla Veres of Hungary reacts after winning against Jing Rong of China in the gold-medal bout for women's category A epee-individual wheelchair-fencing in Chiba, Japan, on August 26, 2021, during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. #

Brodie Smith of Team Australia, photographed during the women's goalball preliminary match between Team Israel and Team Australia on day one of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Chiba, Japan. #

A praying mantis sits atop a New England Patriots helmet on the sidelines during a game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 19, 2021. #

A Border Security Force trooper performs a stunt on his motorcycle during a road show to celebrate 75 years of India's independence, in Ahmedabad, India, on August 25, 2021. #

Residents overtake a truck loaded with relief supplies in Vye Terre, Haiti, on August 20, 2021. Private aid and shipments from the U.S. government and others were arriving in the country's southwestern peninsula, which was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on August 14. #

U.K. coalition forces, Turkish coalition forces, and U.S. Marines assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 20, 2021. #

A firefighter carries two girls in an area where several homes were destroyed by a mudslide caused by heavy rains in the Valle del Mocoties community, in the municipality of Tovar, Merida state, Venezuela, on August 26, 2021. The death toll from heavy rains that triggered mudslides and floods in western Venezuela has risen to 20, local authorities said on Wednesday. #

A black gibbon is seen in a cage before being released into the wild by the Indonesian nature-conservation agency BKSDA in Jantho forest, Aceh province, Indonesia, on August 26, 2021. #

Eugenio Suarez of the Cincinnati Reds falls into netting as he attempts to catch a foul ball in the first inning during the team's game against the Miami Marlins at Great American Ball Park on August 21, 2021, in Cincinnati, Ohio. #