The actual residents who were living in this area that was affected by the coal fire and subjected to these toxic gases, they really wanted this story to go out into the world.

They desperately wanted to be resettled, and they were willing to do whatever it took to put pressure on the government to make that happen, even if it made life really uncomfortable for them.

The international media was sort of the last tool they had left.

It was the Hail Mary to kind of shame the government by attracting all of these, you know, foreign reporters.

A lot of people picked up the story and picked up Natalia's videos, because she had the receipts, she had the actual videos.

Her bravery as a citizen journalist, her just complete fearlessness in approaching people, putting a camera directly in their face and asking the difficult question that nobody will ask but everybody's burning to, it's definitely inspiring.

You see a situation in which the government is saying something is white when it's really black, and the media and the government are saying things that contradict what people actually see in front of their eyes and what they smell and what their body is feeling.

The media, the government, these things need to be aligned with what people actually experience, and when they're not aligned, that's when distrust grows and that's dangerous.