2 Alarm Fire wipes out city block! (9 pictures)

[cjm]

I took these pictures while fire consumed an entire city block of industrial business'. I found a bench and was able to take practically exclusive pictures of one side of this fire. Exclusive because all the rest had to limit their pictures through a fence.

There were probably 20,000 to 40,000 people from surrounding neighborhoods that came out to watch. Here are some of the pictures I took.

http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire01.jpg

Below, "Oh no the fire truck got stuck on the train track and dug its wheel in deep!" says the Chief (wearing blac) looking at the tire.
http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire02.jpg

Below: Drive gets out to see how bad it is. (mean while the crowd is sort of in a cheering laughing mood)
http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire02_a.jpg

Below: They use the hose anyways and spray across 4-6 Tracks.
http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire03.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire04.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire05.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire06.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire07.jpg

Below: Picture my friend took of me taking pictures on the bench. Im in the read hat and at least 4 feet higher then everyone else.
http://members.shaw.ca/cmphotos1/Fire/F_Fire_Chris.jpg

Please comment if you like any of them. Most were done with manual settings.

[stoneylonesome]

Great series of shots. Nice going, OK How did they get the fire truck unstuck. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[am_pitbull_terrier]

Super!

[Mills]

Looks like it was a monster. Great job!

[Dante King]

nice shooting!

[Ballen Photo]

WOW! Talk about a "News Worthy" shot, that Firetruck stuck at the RR Track and still trying to put the fire out. :shock: Nice job capturing this. :D
-Bruce

[CyberDyneSystems]

Amazing shots,. these are really impressive.
It looks like your white balance went a little "blue" in the 7th and 8th shot?

[cjm]

Why thanks guys.

Ballen, yeah I tried to get a hold of the papers to see about them using it but no one was around. Too bad because as I suspected, all of their shots were through the fence, and on the other side of the tracks where you couldn't see anything. Ah well too bad.

CDS, yeah there was a little blue to those ones, for some reason the camera (i guess) picked up the bright blue of the sky at sunset and gave it a blue look. It may or may not have been because my batteries were almost dead. Ah well, still better then nothing and thank God for Photoshop :)

[cmM]

oh man that poor fire truck.... did they get it out ? lol

Very nice shots!

[Ballen Photo]

I tried to get a hold of the papers to see about them using it but no one was around. Too bad because as I suspected, all of their shots were through the fence, and on the other side of the tracks where you couldn't see anything. Ah well too bad.


Their loss.:cool:
-Bruce

[cjm]

Oh yeah, of course they got it out, probably is only worth 1-2 million dollars and is on a train track (thankfully one where rail cars park on). I wasn't around when they most likely pulled it out with a tow truck but I was there when it got stuck. It was so strange though, such a community atmosphere watching these business burn to the ground, like after everyone laughed one of the fire fighters came out bowed and gave either the peace sign or the finger. I took a picture of that, but for some reason it turned out blurry :( I never have seen that many people in my area in all my life. Sure they live there but it is different when they all are outside in one spot.

[cjm]

Here's the Edmonton Sun, not a very attractive picture. Especially for cover.