While visiting my Dad in North Carolina, I was asked if could photograph the apparatus fleet of the local fire rescue department. The Sherrills Ford Terrell FR serves a semi rural area of Catawba County 20 miles north of Charlotte. It is a combination fire rescue department which runs about 1000 calls per year from 4 stations. Go to http://sftfr.net/ for more. They assembled the fleet on the shores of Lake Norman, a 500 square mile lake of which they cover over 100 miles of shore line. The nearby Denver Fire Department kindly provided their Aerial Tower which provided a moveable stable platform from which I could work. We waited until dusk to reduce shadows then I shot the photographs. The firemen then moved all the apparatus to the side lot of Duke Energy’s Marshall Steam Electrical generating plant which is also in the SFTFR first due area. It was now well into the evening and the darkness provided for interesting photographs.
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