Greetings, fellow fire photo fans. I'll start this group with my best shot of 2007, a 4-alarm church fire in Portland, OR. Our Rescue, returning from an upper...
First let me say thanks for the site rh1067! This is an incredible opprotunity to exchange a wealth of information, as well as gaining some well needed...
I'll try this another way, by linking to my pbase site. I may or may not put these photos into a folder in the photos section. Truck 13 had a good spot in a...
Hello all And greetings from Bainbridge island Washington, near Seattle. I've been here since March of 2006. .I've had a few photo opportunities present...
... images ... All that info. is in the introduction on the group Home page. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FireFotosWest/ Just to reiterate and clarify; ...
When starting a thread to discuss a fire photo related subject such as "Photographing Night-time Fires" or our relations with our fire department, the...
At about 3:15 this morning, a full assignment was dispatched for an apartment fire at NE 21st Ave. & Weidler St. Engine 13 and Truck 13, stationed at 9th and...
A digital camera holds valuable information that you may not be aware of. It's called Exif, meaning "Exchangeable image file format, a specification for the...
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A stranger to Portland called 911 at 7:45 AM and reported smoke from the eaves of a house on Holgate Ave., maybe around 61st Ave. 911 dispatched a box...
If those photos were "poor quality", I would hate to see your bad ones. I wish I still had some of my bad shots from the 1970's. Thats when we still used this...
Well got something to post LOL. Not sure if this will work but we shall see. Some smoke, no fire. http://pa.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000nrBzpwcW3QE Let...
Works very well.. nice shots! Scott ... From: cb_in_socal To: FireFotosWest@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:43 AM Subject: [FireFotosWest]...
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Nice work Chet! Thanks for the contribution! I love the shot of the guys on the front patio. Does Burbank still use open jumpseat (not enclosed) Seagraves???...
Took this photo this AM, one week after the fire. The victim succumbed to his injuries and last Friday we had another fatal fire, this time in SW Portland. ...
After a long drought, there are finally some photos worth posting. This week there were 2 days with back to back working fires, but the first two were not...
911 received many calls for a fire at the former Albina Fuel company office building at NE 33rd Ave. and Broadway, one of the busier Portland intersections....
Just after 01:30 on Monday, June 23, Portland tapped out (dispatched) a box for NE 99th Ave. and Failing St. in the small, upper middle class residential...
... (dispatched) ... class ... from ... also ... E12, ... arrived ... had ... companies ... 12. ... the ... control) ... Is it my imagination, or is the one...
perhaps he's referring to the front-mounted pump on one of the engines? I'm guessing it was a reserve, since i haven't seen one of those in front-line service...
It is my belief they?are called intercab engines when the pump was enclosed in the front of the apparatus as opposed to the front mount outside the cab....
... enclosed in the front of the apparatus as opposed to the front mount outside the cab. Portland Fire?web site shows station 28 and 30 having these types of...
... intra-cab, if it is in front, it is a front mount. Intra-cab is what the manufacturs called them, not a regional name. I believe Western States probably...
That term certainly makes sense since intra means within, but I'm from the east coast and I've never heard the term in the 50 or so years I've been involved...
As the 4th of July approaches, runs seem to increase and some are rather bizarre (like a houseboat drifting down the Columbia river and someone jumping off a...