Album News: Fires and other disasters from depscribe

Why I was late getting home

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:20:01 +0000

A body of water called Federal Creek, about two miles from my house. It was dark -- I'm stunned that the Fuji X-Pro1 was able to produce an OOC jpeg that is much brighter than the scene itself -- and heavy snow was beginning. I took another way around -- and those two miles took me more than two hours to traverse.

There's a river under there

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:19:01 +0000

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Many hours of hard rain led the ice on the Hocking River to break up. Those ice floes were not moving very fast at all.

A rescue

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:17:37 +0000

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This little pup was the only one home when the house caught fire. And this fireman rescued him.

Leica M-2, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X, D-76 1:1

It's hard, exhausting work

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:18:12 +0000

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Fire knocked down, building, too

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:54:04 +0000

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Forget something?

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:54:36 +0000

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I've photographed a hundred fires, but in all the others all the firemen wore pants.

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An outhouse fire

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:55:06 +0000

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Which, of course, gave rise to the two-word joke that began with the word "hot."

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If only there were water

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:55:31 +0000

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Soon, that was gone, too

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:56:02 +0000

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Firefighting in the dark

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:56:37 +0000

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A photogenic fire

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:57:07 +0000

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As firefighters regroup, sunlight filters through the smoke.

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It makes more sense than you'd think

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:57:37 +0000

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The house, already lost, was burning so hot that adjoining buildings were beginning to smoke.

Leica M-2, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X, D-76 1:1

To get a good fire picture . . .

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:58:14 +0000

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. . . sometimes you have to go inside the burning building.

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There were four aboard, all teenagers

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:39:03 +0000

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The pilot had gotten his license a short time before. He had taken the plane without permission, had loaded up three of his friends -- his best friend and their girlfriends -- and took off. They flew into a thunderstorm.

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It had come nearly straight down

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:39:37 +0000

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Broken branches showed the path of the fatal flight.

Rollei 35, Tri-X, D-76

Soon we found it

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:40:09 +0000

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Some parts were still identifiable, but most were not. The crash site was fairly compact.

Rollei 35, Tri-X, D-76

Looking for the plane crash

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:40:47 +0000

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It was a stormy Friday night. A spectator at a highschool football game saw a small airplane, illuminated by a flash of lightning. It was low and was headed straight down. Firefighters searched through the night, but it was not until after sunrise that the wreckage was found, in a marshy area near Florida's famous Inverrary golf course. The police wanted news people kept away. Firemen loaned me boots and a fireman's bunker coat. Into the swamp we trudged.

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A parents' fear

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:50:09 +0000

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The rider, though hurt, completely recovered.

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Injury on the road at night

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:50:38 +0000

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Another day, another wreck.

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Oops!

nobody@ipernity.com (depscribe) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:51:18 +0000

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The ditch was closer than the driver of this cement truck thought it was. He didn't get hurt.

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