“This Job Is Never Easy…” 24•July•13

A woman pauses in her father’s apartment destroyed by fire at New Windsor Gardens apartment in New Windsor, NY on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A kitchen fire in the apartment displaced eight families and injured three firefighters in the Monday afternoon blaze. © CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record One of the many aspects I truly love about […]
*”You Don’t See This Everyday…” May 2012

A couple of interesting images from last week on the job. ~cg. Newburgh firefighters work to extinguish flames on a 30-foot Sea Ray pleasure boat as it burns on the Hudson River near the Newburgh Marina in Newburgh, NY on Saturday, May 19, 2012. There were no injuries as two occupants on the boat escaped […]
"More Winners…" Feb. 2012

Kinda starting the year off right with a (small) announcement that an image of mine was awarded a second place (top) in the NPPA – MNCC (National Press Photographer’s Association – Monthly News Clip Contest) for last October. The image that’s come to be known around the office and with colleagues as “The kid with […]
3 – Alarm Fire. Newburgh, NY 6•Jan•12

There really isn’t any additional commentary I need to add in helping to explain these images from a stubborn fire early this morning that destroyed multiple business in a small shopping plaza not far from home… ~cg. Ron Palmer reacts at the scene of a three-alarm fire at Algonquin Plaza, 190 South Plank Road in […]