Dangerous Junkyard fire

An epic junkyard fire that almost injured me. We hear the call come over the scanner on a slow weekend and I ran out the door. As soon as hit the freeway I see the big black plum of smoke. As any good photog will tell ya, thats one good fire. as soon as I set up my first shot 3 seconds after I first hit the button, a piece of somthing flew out just missing me. It didnt make it into the actual package but I put it in the begging just to show . . . you never know.

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News & Politics

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• News
• Fire
• Junkyard
• firemen
• photojournalist

[ffjsb]

Cars have a lot of things that can fly out and kill you, shocks, struts, door struts, etc. And the airbag systems can throw projectiles too. I don't know why they didn't give the crane operator an SCBA to wear, he was probably sucking in a lot of toxic smoke.

[RammsteinFire13]

WOW, that was a really close call!