Sunday, January 10, 2010

I did it all without coffee or breakfast



Did I just hear a siren?  Wait, what time is it?  Did I just dream hearing a siren?  If I did hear a siren, what kind was it?  Ambulance?  Police?  Fire department?

My alarm clock goes off, so I turn it off.  It's my day off, so I'm in no hurry to get up.  But what's that smell?  Is something burning?  I stumble around the house trying to determine if what I'm smelling is coming from my house.  There is no smoke, but the smell is fairly strong.  I'm fairly confident that it's nothing in my house, so I decide to investigate outside.

Wow, it's cold again this morning!  The smoke smell is definitely coming from somewhere in town.  Now that I am starting to think logically, I go back inside and turn on my scanner.  Within a couple of minutes I can determine from the radio traffic that there is a fire at the Frontier Motel.

I grab my cameras, start the car and head to the other end of town.  As I arrive, I see a lot of smoke and some flames.  I spend the next hour shooting the firefighters efforts to finish putting out the blaze.



I head back home and download the images I shot.  I post one to the newspaper web site and e-mail several to our layout person for the day.  Not a bad morning for not having any coffee or breakfast.





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