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factorone33 — Ft. Leavenworth FD HDR
Published: 2009-09-02 08:11:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 1667; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 35
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I really haven't dabbled much in HDR, but a recent trip to the Kansas City metro area provided me with the chance to do just that: screw around with it. This shot proved a little tough, as I didn't have a tripod, and a friend of mine, whom used to work in this very station, requested that I do some photography of old fire houses in the area so he could print and hang some. I figured it'd be a great excuse to try some HDR shots.This is the Fort Leavenworth Fire Department Station 1. This is the original station built in the late 1880s (I believe) when pumper carts were horse-drawn, and ladder companies were over glorified racks with wooden ladders. Today, the bays are filled with modern fire apparatus from manufacturers such as E-One and Pierce.
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EF 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
ISO 200 @ 1/1250, f/6.3
AEB: +/- 1.0 EV (1/640, 1/1250, 1/2500)
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Nice motorcycle, too! Our first station was built in 1888, but it was just a wooden shed -- had one each hand-drawn hose cart, hook and ladder wagon, and hand-pumper.
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Sounds pretty common. Many don't realize that Leavenworth Fire Department (the city department, not the fort department) is the oldest paid full-time department in the country. Even older than FDNY.
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Really? I'd thought it was Cleveland. But then, the most western fire departments never seem to get the respect!
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We were both wrong!
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"On April 1, 1853, the Cincinnati, Ohio (USA) Fire Department became the first full-time paid professional fire department in the United States, and the first in the world to use steam fire engines."
However, from what I've been able to gather, they weren't the first department to have a full time firefighter (usually chief); just the first to be all full time, with no volunteers at all. There was a huge discussion going on over at the Firehouse Magazine forums on the issue.
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Just a bit. It's the newest one, but it's also a pile of trash. However, the older green one on the far right isn't a bad rig at all by any stretch.
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Well you got to think its also the entry truck for E-One, some of their newer stuff is good. There older engines before this was built have a lot of electrical issues.
The snot green one is kind of neat.
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Nice.
I've been in there. Lived on the fort too.
FAV.
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I applied to be on the same department recently, missed the call-back by 1 position.
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I came in 17th once for the Fort Wayne Fire Department -- they hired 13.
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