A Few Pictures

Took these over the last couple days. I have more, but don't have them with me on the laptop at the station. So here's a peek at what's been going on in District 6 lately. You can click the pics to get a bigger image.





The first shows Stu, one of our captains and leader of the Technical Rescue Team (TRT), kayaking to an isolated house to check on the welfare of a stranded 81-year-old man.

The second is the front yard/driveway of his neighbor's house, with their delivery van still parked where they left it the night before.

The bottom left pic is the TRT walking up a flooded roadway, towing two kayaks, after a deployment.

The final pic is an oil release from several 55-gallon drums stored at a shop that began to leak into the floodwaters and then into the Cowlitz River, creating a hazmat incident.

I gave several of these to the chief last night, for use in press releases and the like, and he told me today they ended up on television last night, on KGW (Channel 8). He said he gave me credit for the photos, and perhaps they were up on their website still, but I didn't see them. Still, 15 minutes of fame as a photographer, I guess. :)