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Permalink Reply by Rachel on
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I am the Public Information Officer for my volunteer department. We are located in Northeast Florida.
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Permalink Reply by Ron King (Fire Chief) on
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Our Department has always taken pictures. Our Department came about in 1849 and I have saw pictures that have went way back. Our Captain takes pictures each year of all the deals we have. At the end of the year he turns it in to a Slide Video show with music. We always show it at our Christmas Dinner. IT is always OUTSTANDING! and everyone enjoys. This will be our fourth year of doing this. He has some of them on his site here if you would like to see. (Donnie Widner)Wytheville Fire Dept.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Briggs on
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Thank you Rachel.
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Thank you Chief King. I would like to see them. I am in the process of gathering my Fire Photographer information together so I can put on a presentation - class room training - for the department that I am the photographer for. I have to go through a process to do it by asking preliminary permission to put together the information of a lesson plan first then submit that as part two. Thank You again.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Harkey on
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Our department has had a photographer for a while. Her photos have even been used to help with some fire investigations. Insurance companies often get photos from us as well. We did not have a position for a photographer, she is married to one of our captains. Being on a volunteer department she was often around wanting to help. She started taking pictures and it just fit her. Any time we have a news worthy event the paper calls her to get photos. We have learned to really like having the camera around, unless you are the one caught out of gear.
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I know what you mean there. Two of the current members have known my family since before I was even born and I caught one not in full gear at a working fire and caught it on camera. Needless to say he didn't like me for a month since he got a little office call at my insisting, but when I explained to him later why I had the call made since I don't want to see anyone get hurt when I am on scene since they watch out for me I do the same back, he then apologized to me for being mad and then thanked me. After the two had their office calls the chief then made it clear to all personnel to be in full gear on all working fire calls. I had another one who didn't want to wear a the traffic vest working in the roadway and I made it load and clear to that person that the vest is required. That person then went to the chief about it and the chief made it nice and clear that safety gear is required and not optional. I was then thanked by the chief for the help. Thank You to everyone who has replied to my post.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Weishaar on
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I'm our PIO and another member and myself try to get photos as much as possible. We are volunteer and don't get a lot of fires, so we capture lots of training and events too.
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Thank you Christopher. I have only recently started shooting some of the trainings after I was called on a day off to come and shoot a rope rescue-high angle rescue training day. It was a lot of fun and different challenges to photograph.
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Permalink Reply by hoss on
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I am fire photographer, there are lots of us out there, but we are often times lone wolves in our own geographic areas. That being said there are many fire buff/photography clubs, associations or groups you can join including the International Fire Photographers Association http://ifpaweb.ning.com/ the IFPA is also on Facebook.
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Permalink Reply by Rich Bogart on
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I am a professional freelance photographer for a number of local papers in NYC, mainly focused on sports photography my gear is almost always in my car. If I am on a operating call for my Dept and can do so without there being a job performance issue I will take photos. I am the Dept Safety Officer and the pics can serve as training aids.
I do only do this for our jobs thou I have no desire to buff jobs for pics in other areas.
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Permalink Reply by Russ on
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i have been shooting fires and emergency scenes since i was about 12 years old. i have had the honor of being published in firehouse a couple of times and a few other mags before going carrear as a FF-even then i still found time to shoot fires. based on the type of photography i shoot which is not fire all the time i like the title Public Safety Photographer
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Thank you hoss. I am actually thinking about joinging that next year. It would open the doors to even more networking with other fire photographers.
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