tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31984854534295038022024-03-13T08:35:32.179-07:00Firehouse Photo ProjectAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475519849032747529noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198485453429503802.post-80570417005025982842016-05-29T14:06:00.000-07:002016-05-29T14:06:55.414-07:00Another overseas house-Grand Cayman<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>This past week I was able to get shots of another firehouse in Grand Cayman, this one is closest to the airport. These photos were done on the fly, as of course there isn't really any space to pull over in to get shots of it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>Unfortunately, no trucks outside on the day we traveled by this house, but sadly, I got to take a few shots of a firehouse at work at our resort this past week. A newlywed husband and wife had gone snorkeling, with tragic results. I learned today that the wife passed away, even after heroic efforts on the part of the resort guests and the firehouse rescue squads to revive her. A sad day on the East End. I chose not to publish any photos of the rescue efforts out of respect for the families, but instead photographed the trucks at the resort, and helped to distract other children on the beach by taking them to go look at the firetrucks. </i></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475519849032747529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198485453429503802.post-64284206008921572152015-08-24T20:48:00.001-07:002015-08-24T20:48:45.988-07:00Training Day<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was lucky enough to spend part of an afternoon and early evening with crews this month from two area firehouses during a training exercise. Departments from the towns of Hadley and Leverett met on the site of an abandoned property along Route 9 to conduct some search and vent training with the help of a smoke machine in a house slated to be torn down in the coming months. It was a humid day and the focus was also on keeping hydrated during the exercises.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small teams from each department alternated entering the structure and venting through a second floor window. Department chiefs observed both in and outside the structure, and gave feedback to the teams once their run-through was completed. The opportunity to watch this training session was fascinating to me, I happily stood and watched for the duration of the training, swatting away bugs and dripping with the heat. (Remember bug spray for another session!) Thanks to Chief Mike Spankenbel for the opportunity to watch these teams in action.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It was really difficult to pick photos from the over 200 that I shot that day for this post. My favorite ones are of course the ones that show the faces of the firefighters themselves- their intensity and focus on the training. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi blog followers! It's been awhile but you know how it is-life moves pretty fast and sometimes it is hard to keep up with things. I recently was able to enjoy a family vacation abroad in Grand Cayman, somehow with all of the sun and beautiful views I found a few moments to stop and visit briefly one of the three firehouses that are located on the island. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Left side view of the station below. I think we parked illegally on the side of the road here to get this shot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crew on duty inside were welcoming, and as they didn't have a patch on hand, they very generously gave me one of their older firehouse shirts to take home with me. Thank you to the guys there-it was nice of you and I was thrilled to have it (by the way, it fits perfectly!) </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huge thank you to Jared Kajka for the visit here at the King Street firehouse!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will still update this blog if I can get to Barnes and do the firehouse there, but after I breathed a sigh of relief that this project was finally finished, I realized it <b>really isn't over</b> at this point. I have met so many people and talked with them about this project, that I realize that I need to keep working on and widen its range more. Plans for a book of all of the photographs are at the top of the list, along with expanding to include the rest of the state and potentially all of New England are in the works. People are really enthusiastic and excited(incredibly some even more than I am!) about this project, and have given me many suggestions and much encouragement to continue on with it. For me, this project started with a desire to see more of the area that I have lived my entire life in, and the admiration I have for the crews who go out every day to answer a call. I certainly experienced more dirt roads in the past few months than I think I ever have before! This area has an incredible amount of history, and much more wide open spaces than I ever thought it did, as well as many areas I had never traveled to. The thrill of discovering new places played a big part in this project, as well as discovering how similar and different firehouses across the region can be. One added bonus, if I ever run into problems while traveling in the area and need emergency assistance, I know exactly where each and every firehouse is in every town here! </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I don't know specifically each and every person that has taken the time to discover and read this blog, I do know that it has been read by individuals in countries near and far, so a huge thank you to the readers from the following areas who have explored it as of this writing:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not too bad for a little blog that isn't promoted hmm?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless, keep checking back to the blog and I promise to update followers on the next phase of this project as it unfolds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to my "big brother" Bill, for pushing and encouraging me with this project, and helping me to scream at the GPS when it was telling us to be in the wrong place from where we wanted to be. One of the best road trip pals ever, except when you were laughing at me about my "damn dirt road" phobias. I still will detour miles out of the way in order to avoid driving on them. My car is still trying to recover from the traumas I inflicted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>And now for something completely different........</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my friends took the time on his vacation to photograph and send me photos of firehouses when he wasn't getting drunk on wine in France or taking "selfies" at the Eiffel Tower. Thanks Paul for sending them to me so that I could share them here!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I leave you now with one incredibly important message-if you hear or see an emergency truck-PULL OVER and let them get past you-that extra minute of trying to maneuver around your vehicle could make a difference to someone. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was a beautiful day to finish up the lower southwest corner of the state, and I was driving solo on this trip. I headed up the Mass Turnpike to the first stop in the town of Lee, about a 45 minute drive from the interstate. I had two listings for Lee, both within the same block, but discovered when I arrived that there was only one firehouse in town, on Main Street. (FYI-to google maps-there is no station on Railroad Street!) I was pleased with this first stop as the firehouse there I thought looked particularly interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Continuing south from Alford, the next stop was to the town of Egremont. I discovered here that there are TWO firehouses, where I only had one listed. Luckily I drove right by the first one by happy accident, so I was able to stop and get some shots of this first station, located next to the town police department. You can see from the front view of the building why I drove by and almost missed this one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just where the Appalachian trail crosses Sheffield Road, there is a marker to note where the last battle of Shay's Rebellion was fought. ( If you don't know what this was all about-look it up in your history textbooks) The marker itself IS crooked, so no error here in photographing it on my part.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I sighed when I saw the line on the route begin to go from wide to small on the GPS screen. I also began saying a bunch of other things after that however, that I won't repeat for my readers here. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first mile and a half was easy as pie though. The road was wide and well graded, and populated with houses the entire way. I thought, not too bad if the rest of the way is like this. I hit mile 2 and it began to be not so much fun. I should have known when the road narrowed and led into a more forested area that it would get hairy. Sorry to the guy in the truck that was coming the other way at that point, I just wasn't going to hug the ditch. Not in my vehicle which has no capability of getting unstuck if I drove it into said ditch.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After another half a mile, I crossed a real, genuine, man-made steel bridge, which made me feel better about this particular route. Civilization at its finest! One mile left to go and I was in the home stretch. However, the next mile got worse. I bottomed out a couple of times along the rocks, but it was too late to turn back, never mind that there was no room to turn back at this point in the game.The local wildlife had to have heard me coming, since I had the windows down and was screaming out loud at the stupid road, stupid hills, stupid trees, stupid rocks, stupid woods, and everything in my path that I determined to be stupid. I did find quite a bit of things to yell at for that last mile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, a firehouse that didn't show up on my original route listings. So I hung a left, and discovered I was at the second Lee station, technically in South Lee. Hmmm....another station for me to tell the state directory listings they omitted. Makes me wonder if I missed any more along the way. Some of the crew were out washing the trucks, so you have firefighters in action on this photo. Well, the daughter of one of the firefighters anyway. She was doing a great job!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475519849032747529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198485453429503802.post-66956241242622201812014-09-08T13:33:00.001-07:002014-09-08T13:33:47.156-07:00The Rest of Hampden County<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi followers! I was able to finish up the rest of Hampden County early this afternoon while running around getting errands done, and that puts this project one step closer to its completion. One more major run to be done and then it will be on to the next project. The last firehouse run had to be cut short(see August-below the pike entry) due to time, there were only three stations left on the list in that section to be done. The first one that I stopped at was the Agawam main headquarters, located on Main Street in town. This station is pretty impressive, don't let the shot below fool you. The front facade is only a fraction of the firehouse. In front, there is a memorial for 9/11, and two benches that surround the memorial as well. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With that firehouse completed, an unexpected surprise was in store for me. About a mile away from headquarters, along the way to the next station, I came across the town fire museum, housed in one of the old firehouse locations. Unfortunately, the museum was closed when I was there (of course!), but I'm sure there will be a return visit at some point to explore it. This building is located on Elm Street, right around the corner from fire headquarters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is one more large trip to go before all the firehouses on the list are completed, but there are some things that have been going on for me personally that have been preventing me from getting them photographed. I had hoped to finish this before the Labor Day weekend holiday, and unfortunately real life has gotten in the way of this a little bit. I am hoping to get every last firehouse done before the end of September. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First off- I am still waiting to hear from the powers that be at Barnes Air Force base for permission to photograph the firehouse there. For those who may not be aware of it, I am sure my request is far down on the list due to the unfortunate recent crash and death of one of their pilots in Virginia recently. Their press office has enough to handle at this time, so I'm going to wait a little longer before reaching out to them again on my request.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also returned to teaching-and the college I work at started the term a week earlier than normal ( I lost an entire week of summer!) so my time during the week for travel has been limited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the most pressing unfortunate event that has taken up all of my free time in the past few weeks, my aunt was diagnosed in May with a rare form of cancer, actually so rare that only about 400 individuals have ever been diagnosed with it. For those wondering, it is termed "nut midline carcinoma", and unfortunately, this is one of those cancers that do not respond with the traditional treatments of radiation or chemotherapy. The only experimental drug trial currently for this cancer was not successful for her case, as a result I have been spending almost all of my free time with her and our family in the time she has remaining with us. Her journey is almost at its end as of this writing, so in the coming month I hope to get back out on the road and travel to the remaining firehouses.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pressure is on to finish up this project before the end of summer, last week was a tough one for me to get out and do a firehouse run, so hopefully this week I should be able to get most of the remainder in. It was a beautiful morning to head towards Westfield and do some of the firehouses from there to the west. There are three firehouses in Westfield, however, on this run I only shot the first two, as we were running out of time today. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get the last two towns on that route, as well as the third Westfield one I had to skip today. Regardless, the first stop was at the firehouse on Southampton Road, which all the locals know as Route 10, College Highway. This one is just north of the entrance to the Mass Pike in Westfield.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuing south along Route 10, we soon reached the center of town and visited the central firehouse in Westfield, along Broad Street, located at that intersection I managed to avoid for most of my years as a student at Westfield State (now Westfield University). It was never fun to navigate that maze, especially during rush hour traffic. I would like to note that the addition of new "speed bump" crosswalks in town did not make my car sound better while driving over them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This past </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday morning I headed out to do another firehouse run, with a new GPS unit on loan and with my co-pilot Bill who hadn't been able to come along for the last few runs. It was turning out to be a warm summer day, so we were both happy to head out west towards the Berkshires. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The first stop was in the town of Middlefield, where the firehouse is located on Bell Road, near the town center. The trailer you can see part of just to the right of the photo is actually the town post office, right next door to the firehouse. Gives you an idea of how small the town is when the post office is in a portable trailer right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Hinsdale firehouse is located on Maple Street, and is a great looking firehouse with both stone and siding. The building has a simple logo on the side, but is not the traditional wooden logo like I have seen in other firehouses, but one of tile. Pretty neat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I found some time this past week to do a little bit of Route 2 west of Greenfield, and headed out on a wonderful early afternoon. There wasn't a lot of humidity today as compared to earlier in the week so it was a perfect time to visit some more firehouses. The first stop was in the town of Shelburne and the village of Shelburne Falls at the firehouse on State Street. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Passing through the countryside, we were off to the town of Rowe. Along the way, we made a stop by Pelham Lake, which is located just north of the firehouse and has some great hiking trails around the area. One interesting fact which I personally know of, the lake's parking area houses "Clive" restrooms. If you have never heard of these types of composting toilets before, you need to read up on them at this link-pretty cool stuff. (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960310&slug=2318178" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: red;">What are Clive toilets?</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) I was singing a "tiny little organisms" song on the rest of the way to the firehouse and driving Bill nuts. <grin></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The firehouse in Rowe is located on Sibley Road. Across the street in front of the town hall offices, there is a cool old style phone booth. No working phone inside, but there is a note that if you need to make a call, you can go inside to the town hall to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Update- An additional run was done on 7/26, finishing the rest of the Route 2 corridor. The first stop was below Route 2, in the town of Hawley. This is a volunteer firehouse, and is located on Plainfield Road. Beautiful countryside around the firehouse by the way-lots of farmland all around.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now I was faced with a dilemma, do I go back up the hill to try to get "Station 2" of Monroe, which is just one bay within the town highway department? Since I had to go to North Adams for the evening, I wasn't too thrilled with the prospect of going up then back down the hairpin turn and down the steep grade of the Whitcomb Summit with brakes that had already been burning. I decided to seek an alternate route there, to find that my GPS refused to turn back on. Worse, I needed to pee (in the worst way) and lets just say the main drag of Monroe wasn't offering any possible options. Luckily, I had cell service, so I was able to google an alternate route that didn't involve steep grades to North Adams. Unfortunately, it involved going NORTH! over the border to the state of Vermont, and then west over to Route 8 to head south to North Adams. I didn't have much of a choice in the matter if I didn't want to kill myself going down the mountain so north it was. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> It was a wonderful day to head to the Berkshires, and I was doing this trip solo today, as I had plans to meet up with a friend in that area. Heading west on Route 9 to 116, the first stop was to the town of Plainfield. The firehouse here in town is located on North Central Street, and is part of the town's newer public safety complex. I loved the logo out front.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">After the town of Plainfield, I continued west along Route 116 to the town of Savoy. The firehouse here is located on Center Road, and the side of the firehouse is visible from Route 116, but the front entrance is what I thought was pretty neat-you have to go over a small bridge and brook in the driveway, before you get to the firehouse itself. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">One of the bay doors was open during the time of my visit, so of course I had to get a close up of the first truck of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The Cheshire firehouse also has a pretty neat electronic sign out in front of the firehouse, so you can see how warm it was while I traveled that day. Those who say the Berkshires are always cooler I have to argue a bit with, it was definitely a beautiful and WARM! day when I visited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Next stop was to the town of Adams, where the firehouse is located right along Route 8, and I have always thought this was a great looking firehouse every time I have traveled by it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> To the right of the firehouse, there is a great old piece next to the flagpole, between the firehouse and the bank.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Continuing up Route 8 Northbound, the next stop was to the left of the town of North Adams, to Williamstown. The firehouse here is located on Water Street, just off Route 2.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">For those wanting to check out the local scenery, between Williamstown and the town of North Adams, you can make a detour on Route 2 to the summit of the highest natural point in the state of Massachusetts, to Mount Greylock. I am still amazed that my car made it to the top of the mountain, and I don't mind telling you that I was white knuckled all the way up-not sure if my car would even make it halfway. Once I got to the halfway point of the incline, there was only one option-to keep going. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">After coming back down from the summit-in low gear with my brakes squealing all the way, it was time to head back east on Route 2 to the town of Clarksburg. I thought I was done with hills until I began the climb up Eagle Street in North Adams. I can't imagine how wonderful this hill must be in the New England winters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The last stop of the day was in the town of North Adams, where I had planned grab a bite to eat and then to meet a friend for a walk around town and then join him to watch the SteepleCats baseball game, a collegiate team that is based there in town. Luckily for me, the firehouse got a call just as I arrived after our walk was completed, and I was able to watch the crew suit up and get ready to head out on the trucks. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">With that firehouse finished, it was almost game time. I think I'm bringing the team good luck as they have won at the games I have been at this summer so far. The SteepleCats won 7-6.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This past Monday I was lucky enough to be granted permission to come for a visit and tour of the firehouse at Westover Air Reserve Base in the town of Chicopee. This was a golden ticket visit for me as my grandfather was stationed here at various points in time after World War II. (He was actually a hurricane hunter and radio operator throughout much of his career in the Air Force) My POC-thats Point of Contact for civilian translation- on base was Asst. Chief Wood, and he could not have been more welcoming and gracious to me during my visit to the firehouse. There was so much to see and talk about while I visited, and I am completely impressed with the operation there on the base. It comes as no surprise to me that the firehouse has won for the third year in a row the <i>Air Force Reserve Command Fire Department of the Year</i> award. By the way, Charles VanGorden, the Fire Chief on the base, also won the award for <i>Best Fire Department Chief</i> in the AFRC this past year. On to some photos now, below is the view of the firehouse from the front-from the base side.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crew in the firehouse have a number of rooms at their disposal during their shifts in the firehouse, from common area rooms to watch television, catch up on email, a training classroom, and a kitchen area. The crew alternates in groups for cooking meals, those who can't cook well are designated to be on pots and pans-cleanup duty! There is also a bunkhouse that I wasn't able to enter, but I was allowed in to look at an officer's sleeping quarters, similar to the quarters that crew would use on overnight shifts. There is also a gym on the base, that the crew has access to while off duty. All of the firehouse team are certified first responders as well, (actually NREMT-Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Techs, a level higher than first responders) so they are prepared for any situation that they are called to. A typical shift on base has a minimum of eighteen staff members, so the firehouse can respond to emergencies as needed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The firehouse here on base also provides mutual aid to both Hampshire and Hampden counties, which includes of course the town of Chicopee. However, they will respond to other counties if requested. For those who live in Western Mass, you will be interested to know that they were called in to respond to the fire when a tanker truck with fuel overturned on I-291 in Chicopee in an accident in 2010, pictured below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More recently, when a fire on Route 9 in the town of Hadley consumed a large commercial building and a local landmark in town this past fall, the Westover crew was also called in to assist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The base firehouse is called in to assist at these types of events especially, because they have the apparatus that is capable of helping to control these types of large fires, especially fires based from fuel or other acellerants. I was lucky enough to be able to climb into some of these vehicles, and get a close up look at their capability to battle these types of emergencies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their crash rescue vehicle is equipped with a special nozzle, and is called the "snozzle". The snozzle vehicle can spray out flame retardant foam to help battle the types of fuel fires such as the one on I-291</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wouldn't be a real visit to the base unless I included a photo of the other transport vehicles as well. I was given permission to take photos of the planes from the tarmac outside of the firehouse, so of course I jumped at the opportunity. It is always amazing to me how large these planes really are, to get a perspective on their actual size you can simply compare them to the backhoe in front of the first plane. You can visit the base during their air show in May of 2015-where the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will be showcased, as well as commemorating the 75th anniversary of the base. For a link to the upcoming show, you can visit the show's facebook page at: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/greatnewenglandairshow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/greatnewenglandairshow </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>7/14/13 UPDATE: After my visit to Westover, Asst Chief Wood was very helpful in letting me know that there are indeed more firehouses in Chicopee other than the three I referenced above (Thanks!). I went out this morning to shoot the other four. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After leaving the town of Orange, it was time to head west along part of Route 2A to the town of Warwick. The firehouse in Warwick is located off Orange Road, and I still can't think of anything that rhymes with orange.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Yesterday I bit the proverbial bullet and did the city that I feared that would take the most time to photograph, what in this part of the state is considered to be the "Capital of Western Mass", the city of Springfield. However, it really wasn't too bad to get accomplished, even though the city houses eight fire stations within it. </span></span><div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The first stop we made was in what the locals call the "North End" of Springfield, a few blocks away from Baystate Medical Center. The North End is a section of the city that has been especially troublesome with regards to criminal activity, so I didn't want to spend a lot of time at this stop. Even though the station is right on Main Street, it doesn't really fit in architecturally with the rest of the buildings around it, tenement housing and small businesses with bars on the doors and windows. It is a pretty nice looking station right on Main Street.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The station also has a memorial in front of the building. This particular station has a memorial to Leonard Corbin, the city's first Black firefighter who served the city from 1969-2001 after thirty-two years of service to the city. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Along with the memorial to Leonard Corbin, the station also houses something else interesting out front-</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Buckingham Cornerstone.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cornerstone was from Buckingham Junior High School, which had been built on the station's site in 1891. Classes ended at the school in 1968, and the site was used for various programs in the city before being re-utilized as a permanent home for Station 8. </span><span style="color: yellow;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To the left of the station, looking from Carew Street, there is also a nice looking memorial in front of rose bushes dedicated to those lost on September 11, 2001.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The final station of the city, Station 12, is located in what is locally known as the Sixteen Acres section of the city, and is located on Parker Street a few miles north of Western New England University. Thanks to a one way street next to the station and no parking, we had to circle the station an annoying two times before I was able to get out of the car to photograph it. However, I am glad I was able to, as I thought this station was great to photograph as the driveway has a small slope and a great shot. This station is the home to Engine 12, and Brush 1, and has been so since the 1960's. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Continuing northbound on Interstate 91, the next stop was in the town of Greenfield. This firehouse is pretty large, and has some great details to it as well. There is a large firefighters memorial on the left side of the firehouse-with some great artwork. I was told by one of the firemen that the eagle originally was holding the flag until the typical New England weather took its toll on it, so the design was altered a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original bell for the firehouse is on display at one of the local banks in town, and the firehouse uses the bell tower now to put their Christmas tree in during the holidays. I was told that the firehouse "sister" station is in Palmer or Longmeadow-the fireman wasn't positive which one, so it will be interesting to see where the other location is. The station originally had arched doors on the firehouse, that opened up in three different sections, that were removed for the more modern looking and more useful doors, the old doors are being used in a previous firefighters barn now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Local firehouses are challenging each other in some friendly competition to raise money mostly for the National Fallen Firefighter's Foundation. Some of the firehouses are raising money for their local Relay For Life teams, and other charities as well. Basically, what happens is that one department calls on another department, or individuals within departments, to meet their challenge within 48 hours or pay up.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Wonderful idea for these charities, and the rivalry is well, heating up. In a cold way. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Most recently, the video from the town of Easthampton.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Today I was able to hit some what we in WMass call the "hilltowns" for some photos. We started off in the town of Southampton, where the firehouse is located on College Highway. For those not familiar with that name, it is otherwise designated by the state as Route 10. The firehouse here has one paid chief, and the rest of the firefighters are all volunteer. Unfortunately, none of the trucks were out at the time so we didn't stay long after taking a few shots.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our way back down Route 9 heading east, we of course had to make a stop at the Old Creamery in Cummington for ice cream. You will spot the building from a mile away due to the large fiberglass cow on the roof of the building. If you are looking for some great ice cream-this is the place my friends! I highly recommend the "moose tracks" ice cream- a fudge chocolate swirl with mini reese's peanut butter cups inside. Hit the spot on this warm humid summer day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The town of Cummington has a firehouse located on Main Street. At first glance, it looks abandoned, but according to the sources we consulted, it is the only active firehouse in town. We couldn't see any trucks inside unfortunately, and it is also a volunteer firehouse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaving Cummington ,we continued heading west on 9 to the town of Goshen. Definitely one of the best logos I've seen on a firehouse so far. The side of the building faces the road, hence the two pictures below. There was a blood drive going on at the time of our visit, unfortunately I can't donate so soon after my last donation so we didn't stay long. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">UPDATE: 6/5/14 I was able to return to the town of Williamsburg </span></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12475519849032747529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3198485453429503802.post-47263830157700177092014-05-22T19:34:00.001-07:002014-05-22T19:52:09.247-07:00Week One....And four towns done <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the recent sunny weather we had this week, I was able to hit a couple of the firehouses on the list while out and about in the area. I had my long time friend Bill with me, so full credit goes to him here as a patient chauffeur for the first outing. The first stop was at the firehouse in Pelham. Since I hadn't prepared ahead of time a list of addresses, I was pleased that Bill and I found it almost by accident. We originally had headed out to Harkness Road in Pelham to visit LilacLand, an estate where the grounds are open to the public a few weeks of the year, when the lilacs on the property are in bloom. Lilacs are my favorite flower, so this was nirvana for me, walking around the property with thousands of blossoms giving off those special, almost too sweet scents. Sounds crazy to go just to look at lilacs, but it is worth it. And free to the public so its a great deal!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To get back to finding the Pelham firehouse, when we left Harkness Road, Bill suggested we turn right instead of left to head back towards Amherst center. It was a great suggestion as just a short way down the road, we came upon the Pelham Firehouse. In New England, where building ages are measured in centuries, this one is a newborn, with a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark its opening in June of 2013. Unfortunately, no trucks were outside at the time of our visit. For the first photo shoot of the project, it felt a little undramatic. A quick setup of the shot and it was over. The firehouse has more photos online at their web page, so you can get more information on the firehouse and its opening here: <a href="http://www.pelhamfd.com/" target="_blank">www.pelhamfd.com </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We then headed out to the Central Station on North Pleasant Street. It has a very short driveway, so I can only imagine that when the trucks come out of the garage they have to start slowly, as about 30 feet later they are on the main drag of the town, usually into heavy traffic. I would have loved to shoot this one with the trucks all visible, but it was the luck of the traffic gods that I was able to get a clear shot of the firehouse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> From Amherst, we were then off to the town of Hadley, with a quick stop to the UMASS Sunwheel on the way. After a quick tour around the stone circle (yes you guessed it, another free thing to do in Western Mass), we headed down Route 9 to East Street and the firehouse there. I wished I had gone into the firehouse itself, as I belatedly realized the next day that the Chief, whom I haven't met, Mike Spankenbel, was "kin" to me after he married my cousin Jessie. Next time I will have to stop in and introduce myself. The East Street firehouse is also fairly new by New England standards, being built in 1996.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the Hadley firehouse, we stopped along the back roads to take photos of the Connecticut River along the dike. Yes, you guessed it, another free thing to do in Western Mass. There is a very small parking area along the "elbow" of North Lane, where you can park and walk along the dike a little ways on the river line. The water was beautiful that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later on in the evening, I headed over to the town of Easthampton to self-indulge in pizza and a movie, and along the way visited the firehouse there. The town firehouse is located on Payson Avenue, which I had to bypass a couple of times as I kept thinking the firehouse was still on its old location on Union Street. After a little aggravation on my end, I spotted the large radio tower on Payson, and thought "Bingo!" it must be on Payson Ave. Luckily it was as I was about ready to be on the receiving end of some road rage after slowing down and speeding up Union Street a couple of times in both directions. A cool notation here-the firehouse bell from the original location is outside this firehouse. It is nice to know that someone preserved this history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all, it was a long day of traveling in a small part of Hampshire County, with the stops we made in locations besides the firehouses, but it was a nice start to the project. Stay tuned for more next week, as the rest of the week the forecast isn't looking optimal for photo shooting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;"> I have been saying to friends and family for a couple of months now that I really want to get back into shooting photos, putting myself behind the camera is where I am truly content, rather than in front of the camera. I have decided on a project for the summer, however I think I am being ambitious by stating it is a "summer project", as I know it will take me into the fall to complete it. </b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I have a true admiration and appreciation for those who place themselves on the line every day when they go to work, never knowing what a call will bring them. My appreciation has grown exponentially stronger in the last decade or so of course. The horrific events of the Worcester warehouse fire, where six lives were lost, the events on 9/11, where we lost three hundred and forty three, and most recently, the Boston brownstone fire, where we lost two firefighters, bring home to me the importance and perils that the job entails. </b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;"> My project seemed simple in the beginning planning stages, simply to photograph all the firehouses in Western Massachusetts. I thought it would be great to put it into a book format, with the idea of giving a copy to my young nephew, aged 2, who thinks that all trucks, especially fire trucks, are in his words "Awesome!". As I talked about the project with a few close friends though, immediately questions came up as to how detailed or specific the parameters should be. Should I photograph only those "active" firehouses? How many should I represent from each town? Some towns in the area are obviously smaller, with one firehouse, but some of the larger cities, such as Springfield, have multiple firehouses. But then the bigger question arose, one that would also require some in-depth research, do I photograph those firehouses that have been repurposed into other uses? Many of the older firehouses in the area have been "decomissisioned" or sold, and are now homes and businesses. What to do about this? More importantly, should the photos themselves just be of the firehouses or the people who live and work in them on a daily basis? How can I properly document firehouses without including those who serve them? These are all questions that I have struggled with for the past month or so, and realizing that this project is getting even more detailed than I originally wanted it to be is overwhelming. However, I finally came to some conclusions.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;"> I need to photograph every active firehouse in every town. This is non negotiable. It would not be right or a true accounting to exclude some firehouses in the larger cities where there are multiple locations. If possible, I need to photograph those working in them as well. It would be great to be able to get photos from the top commands to the probies of the houses, but the reality of the situation is, fires happen, and there are no guarantees that they will actually be at the firehouse when I am there. Of course, I need to shoot the trucks in the firehouses, if only to keep this interesting to my nephew! I won't search out those firehouses that have been decomissioned, but if I happen to come across them in my travels, so be it. I'm sure some of the veterans of the firehouses know those previous locations in their towns, if I get any leads, I will act on them, otherwise, its another project to work on after this one is completed. </b></span></div>
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