FIRE!

My assignment for today was to photograph a fence, suggested this time in ernest by camera shy.

I did fulfill my mission, but this fire got in the way of displaying it for my post today.

As I was driving to dinner with a colleague I noticed prominent billowing smoke nearby. So, as a goodly prepared blipper, I drove directly there and brought my ever present camera to bear.

The fire was in a good sized apartment building south of downtown Anchorage. Four fire brigades reported to the blaze.

I snuck past the police patrolling the crowd. "Are you a photographer?" the police officer asked.

"Yes." I said.

"Who do you work for?" the officer asked.

Hmmm. Now you can see my dilemma. Did I want to say 'I am a Blipfoto journalist'? Yes, I wanted to say that. But I thought better. I didn't have my Blipfoto journalist ID card with me at the time. Besides, I already got a good photo of the a firefighter of Brigade 4, so I thought I'd better play it safe.

I humbly said, "I am just an amateur." and I returned to the other side of the street with the other commoners.

During the commotion, I did keep my wits about me and took my fence photo as assigned.

Another View.

Edit: The firefighter in the Brigade 4 photo was initially misidentified as the Captain by my research staff. You can see the Captain in the fence photo.


Apartment Fire. Anchorage, Alaska.