Newburgh, NY firefighter Danny Comacho secures a Stokes Basket above Dubois Street during a high-angle rope rescue drill at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh, NY on Friday, September 14, 2012. The Newburgh and West Point Fire Departments along with participating partners with the Orange County Technical Rescue Team conducted the high-angle rope rescue exercise to simulate removing an injured person from the elevator penthouse of the hospital to the parking garage high above DuBois Street. © CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
Mohonk Preserve Ranger Andrew Bajardi of High Falls walks through smoldering underbrush during a controlled burn by personnel from the Nature Conservancy, Rangers from the Mohonk Preserve and other fire professionals in the Mohonk Preserve in New Paltz, NY on Thursday, September 13, 2012. Land management officials aimed to set fire to 70 acres in the preserve in the hopes of reducing fuel that sparks wildfires and beating back tree species that compete with acorn-producing oak trees. © CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
*Photographed with the Apple iPhone 4s. edited / processed in Instagram on the Apple iPhone 4s.
Chet Gordon resides in the lower Hudson Valley region of New York. A photojournalist for more than 25 years, he recently worked as Westchester Magazine's first photo editor, and previously was a staff photographer at four NYC metro area newspapers. He was also a photo editor at the NY Daily News for 5 years. His work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald-Tribune, USA Today, MailOnline (UK), Army Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Popular Photography magazines, among others. He is a career member of the National Press Photographer’s Association (NPPA), and a former board member of the NY Press Photographer’s Association (NYPPA). He served honorably as a U.S. Marine in the mid-1980's, including 2+ years stationed on Okinawa, Japan, and throughout Southeast Asia. A longtime volunteer and travel enthusiast, he accompanies several humanitarian aid clients on their international disaster relief and medical missions. Since 1997, he's worked in several African countries, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, as well as Afghanistan, Haiti, the Russian Federation, and Thailand. He routinely mentors young photographers looking to break into the industry and vacations in Bermuda and Kenya.
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