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Special Post: Raising Ladders Photography now available!

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I'm pleased to announce that a fledgling gallery of the photography you've seen here is now available online at www.raisingladders.smugmug.com! (There's a link on the sidebar to make everything easier.) All images are available for sale through a variety of mediums; all sizes of photo prints, as well as t-shirts, coffee mugs, and many other things (yes, I know—some of them are kind of chintzy). Please let friends, family, fellow volunteer/career firefighters know about it, because right now a large percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Burn Foundation in the name of our recruit class!

Currently, there's only a few galleries available (including a best-of portfolio), but more will be uploaded as I continue to pursue photography. Ideally, I'd like to let this grow to include D.C. Fire Department special events that I attend, incidents within the city, training exercises/seminars, etc. 

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve it and/or expand my scope of available images (including events that could benefit from the presence of a photographer), I'd love to hear them—feel free to email me via raisingladders@gmail.com

Many thanks to all my readers,
/RL

The last week.

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It's been a long week, for sure; but we only have four more days until graduation on Friday.


Attitudes range from exhausted to exasperated, but I think the common theme amongst all of us is one of excitement. You see, 74% of the class received their station assignments for graduation. The remaining nine are paramedics like myself, and thus we have no idea where we're going—we still have to do more EMS stuff before we can join an engine company. 

Let me just say that it was pretty frustrating to sit there and listen to everyone else receive an assignment while I wondered what time they wanted me back at the Academy on Monday morning.

Regardless, I'm glad that everyone knows where they're going, so they can begin learning their areas and getting to know their crew. I wish everyone the best, and I'll probably see a few of them around the city on calls!

This upcoming week should be pretty fast-paced. We've only got three days of burns—Thursday will be spent setting up for graduation—so it's going to be a lot to cram into each day.