Being Teased

I stopped by the truck house where I have been running calls at lately for a few minutes. The truck house has the benefit of being located right in between both of the yarn shops. (How convenient for me!)

I had just left one of my LYS to after picking up the replacement needle that had broken. I needed to drop off my updated training records since I finally received the transcript from last fall's class.

Well, as soon as I walked in the door, our lieutenant started picking on me because he didn't see me on a call that morning. I reminded him that he doesn't run every call and that I had just stepped into the shower when the first call went out as an automatic alarm and that I did go down to the station to staff the next piece. And that sometimes there are more important things than running a call like a nice hot shower. The guys were just teasing since they knew that I had been up most of the previous night on a different call.

And than we got done to the serious business of going through photos from last week's fire that I had to take using a disposable camera. I have had to do some playing around with the contrast and fill light in order to get these photos half way decent. I am definitely upgrading my photo editing software really soon. One of the best features that I love about my digital camera is that I can turn the flash off and use the available light and you can not do that with a disposable camera. (And there is no zoom on the disposable that I was using!) Lighting on a fire scene is really interesting since you have lights from all of the equipment plus the light bars going. And our gear has reflective striping on it. So I think you can see how tricky it can be to take a good photo on a night scene. But here are some of the photos that I promised from last week's fire. 

And yes, the house was a total loss but that sometimes happens. We try to avoid losing a whole house but sometimes a fire will burn hot and fast and all we can do is try to prevent it from spreading.