Inside the Mind of a Troubled Writer

Future Firefighter and EMT, published author, currently a member of the Bayonne Fire Canteen.

firemensgrapevine:

Vehicle Extrication
Tujunga

Companies from Fire Stations 74 and 24, assisted by Glendale FD, extricated a trapped passenger from this rollover on the 210 Fwy on May 4, 2012.

Photos by David “Doc” DeMulle’, The Foothills Paper

soldierporn: Lee Teter’s famous painting, “Vietnam Reflections.” [This was the highest resolution image of the print that I could find. -R]

soldierporn:

Lee Teter’s famous painting, “Vietnam Reflections.”

[This was the highest resolution image of the print that I could find. -R]

soldierporn: Lighting up the night. Marines with Regimental Combat Team 6’s personal security detachment shoot their M4 rifles during a night range at Forward Operating Base Delaram II, Afghanistan. The Marines used night vision goggles and infrared lasers to see and aim in on their targets. The PSD is responsible for ensuring the regimental commanding officer and other distinguished visitors can safely move about the regiment’s area of operations. (Photo by Staff Sergeant Brian Buckwalter, 29 May 2012 via DVIDS.)

soldierporn:

Lighting up the night.

Marines with Regimental Combat Team 6’s personal security detachment shoot their M4 rifles during a night range at Forward Operating Base Delaram II, Afghanistan. The Marines used night vision goggles and infrared lasers to see and aim in on their targets. The PSD is responsible for ensuring the regimental commanding officer and other distinguished visitors can safely move about the regiment’s area of operations.

(Photo by Staff Sergeant Brian Buckwalter, 29 May 2012 via DVIDS.)

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firemensgrapevine:

Gasoline Tanker Fire
Ventura Freeway

The collision of a sedan and gasoline tanker led to a spectacular blaze on the Ventura Freeway near Glendale late in the evening on April 7, 2012, bringing the response of more than 150 firefighters from the LAFD as well as automatic aid from the Burbank, Glendale and Bob Hope Airport Fire Departments.

Firefighters arrived to find a semi-truck tanker with a twin tank trailer, carrying a capacity load of 9,000 gallons of gasoline, fully enveloped in fire. Despite the inferno and a long trail of flames, both drivers were able to flee their vehicles without injury.
Firefighters labored for 70 minutes to fully extinguish the flames and dike the flow of as much as 3,000 gallons of unburned gasoline, to prevent it from igniting or entering storm drains.

Photos by Mike Meadows, EPN and Rick McClure, EPN

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visrectevivere: Firefighter at the 9/11 Memorial.  The 10th anniversary of the official end to cleanup operations was May 30, 2012.  Photo by Spencer Platt.

visrectevivere:

Firefighter at the 9/11 Memorial.  The 10th anniversary of the official end to cleanup operations was May 30, 2012.  Photo by Spencer Platt.

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