Painting Story: "God Bless our Brave Firefighters!"

This is a picture of the Engine 86 crew from Contra Costa County, CA. We had spent the whole morning training and were exhausted. Just after we finished our drills we were dispatched to a two alarm fire in an apartment complex. It was very hot that day and we were assigned interior fire attack. After two hours of fighting fire and overhauling the burned units we went back to the engine completely spent. That is were the picture as taken. Just after the picture was taken we stepped out from behind the engine and looked up the hill. To our amazement we saw a large column of smoke about three miles away. We dragged our wet exhausted bodies into the engine and took off to a second three alarm fire involving a barn and many acres of grass and brush. It was a long shift.

Jeff L

Pencil Sketch Painting

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