Live fire training.
Jun 3, 2019 20:10:40 #
BigDale
Loc: Seymour CT.
This small 2 room building was built by the local high school shop students for the Vol. FD I belong to use for training. After a couple of months of drills this was the last.
Jun 3, 2019 20:11:55 #
Jun 3, 2019 20:21:42 #
BigDale wrote:
This small 2 room building was built by the local high school shop students for the Vol. FD I belong to use for training. After a couple of months of drills this was the last.
Dale, Great story with superb images. You should donate them to the fire dept. and become their photographer.
Jun 3, 2019 20:42:38 #
Hi Dale, I agree with PixelStan77. You should offer your services to the fire department. There is much need for forensic work that is photography-based.
Jun 3, 2019 20:49:38 #
BigDale
Loc: Seymour CT.
Thanks everybody. I took pictures of this drill with 2 things in mind. They can be used when we create future training programs and for recruitment materials. All my shots from that night have been shared with the dept.
Jun 3, 2019 21:03:03 #
BigDale
Loc: Seymour CT.
When we get a working fire ( the kind of job that makes good pictures) it's all hands on deck and there's no time for pictures. There are a lot of things that have to happen in a compressed time frame to keep someone's very bad day from getting worse and to keep us and them as safe as possable.
Jun 4, 2019 07:38:22 #
Jun 4, 2019 10:08:42 #
Been there & done that. I love capturing fire scenes on camera. Nothing else like it.
Jun 4, 2019 10:54:57 #
Jun 4, 2019 11:51:17 #
skylinefirepest
Loc: Southern Pines, N.C.
For some of you pros...what setting can I use to lighten the photo when taken with a flash...when I'm shooting wrecks and fires at night the reflection off the turnout striping just takes over the whole shot? Look at his last shot in the series...if the reflective striping hadn't been so bright the whole photo would have been lighter. How do we overcome that? I shoot in auto almost all the time because I really don't have much time to mess with the camera on most scenes. I rarely have time or available light to change settings and when we're cutting someone out of a car sometimes I'm holding a light for the crew while also taking the photo one handed, etc. HELP!!
Jun 4, 2019 12:34:13 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
BigDale wrote:
This small 2 room building was built by the local high school shop students for the Vol. FD I belong to use for training. After a couple of months of drills this was the last.
I saw a helmet video from my Sons helmet that he walked into the other day with three other Fireman fighting an actual fire at a two story house. They got to the top of the stairs and all visibility stopped. I know he loves his job and he loves to drive the ladder truck, but I worry so much. I have seen awful pictures of accident scenes they have been to. Firemen are so under paid for the risks that they take; just like our Solders. God bless them all.
Jun 4, 2019 12:48:28 #
Really great series. 
In the old days people would donate their houses to the FD for training. We would light them, put them out with interior attacks and when they were unsafe to enter we would practice exterior attacks and exposure protection. When we were finished we would remove the debris and leave the owned with a foundation on a clean lot. Good for us, good for them.
In the old days people would donate their houses to the FD for training. We would light them, put them out with interior attacks and when they were unsafe to enter we would practice exterior attacks and exposure protection. When we were finished we would remove the debris and leave the owned with a foundation on a clean lot. Good for us, good for them.
Jun 4, 2019 15:21:05 #
skylinefirepest wrote:
For some of you pros...what setting can I use to l... (show quote)
You are trying to do too much at once. Get a old (no longer able to fight fires) photog to do the photography. There are photographers in my area that do that. They can overcome the turnout stripes by going all manual. No TTL on the flashes. The camera has to be set up to do it. Otherwise, use Photoshop to lighten the photo and tone down the stripes.
Jun 4, 2019 17:17:54 #
BigDale
Loc: Seymour CT.
Curmudgeon wrote:
Really great series. img src="https://static.ugl... (show quote)
Live fire training in an acquired building is some of the best training we came get, its also one of the most dangerous. The next town over from us came vary close to killing one of their guys in an old farm house about 30 years ago. He was badly burned an never returned to firefighting. When we were done with our like building we just burned it to the ground. NFPA standards for live fire in acquired building are very strict on what we can and can't do.
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