Western Mass. Fire Photography by Nate Arnold

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My name is Nate Arnold and welcome to my website. I have been an avid fire buff/photographer in the Metro Springfield, Mass. area since late 2001 and have the ultimate goal of becoming a career fire fighter. Aside from my fire photography experience, I am a holder of 2 Associates degrees, one in business management with a focus on sports francises and the other in Fire Protection/Safety Technologies. As to my photography equipment, currently I use a Nikon D3100 D-SLR camera and a Nikon P90 as my back up. I have had my photos published on firenews.org, firehouse.com, 1rbn.com as well as in Firehouse magazine, 1st Responder newspaper and my hometown paper, the West Springfield Record and most recently on two of my area's union websites, Springfield's iafflocal648.org and Holyoke's iafflocal1693.org. Have a look around my website and feel free to leave me a comment or two as to how I'm doing.

Shamless Plug time. Please also visit my friends and fellow photographers websites listed below when you get a chance:

http://www.smokeshowingphotography.com
http://www.firenews.org
http://www.massfiretrucks.com
http://www.pbase.com/abrackett First Due Images by Alan Brackett

Note: The photos on this site are my personal property and are not to be submitted/linked to any other website without my express permission. Any comments, questions, concers, email me at WMAFirebuff@aol.com.

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Springfield, MA 2nd alarm 34 Front St. 12/30/10 : Well, 2010 ends with a bang in Springfield. This job came in at 2:30 p.m. as a reported structure fire on the first floor of the building. Companies arrived on scene to find heavy fire venting on the D side of the structure first floor and went to work. When the smoke condition on the C and then the B sides of the building worsened, Front St. command ordered a second alarm be sent and brought the total number of companies on scene to 6 engines, 3 ladders, and the Rescue Squad. Note: I am sitting here typing this description at 12:33 a.m. and so far, only 1 engine company has been released from the scene with command advising dispatch they still have a sizeable pocket of fire deep seated in the central part of the building and that it (the fire) is inaccessable to personnel.

Springfield, MA 2nd alarm 34 Front St. 12/30/10

Well, 2010 ends with a bang in Springfield. This job came in at 2:30 p ...

Updated: Dec 30, 2010 9:01pm PST

West Springfield, MA 3rd alarm 56 Bridge St. 5/27/10 : Classify this one under the heading: "Didn't see that one comin'!" Shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Thursday May 27th, WSFD crews were toned out for a reported fire at 56 Bridge St. Once crews arrived on scene, the fire, located on the Bravo side first floor of this 3 story ordinary construction OMD appeared from the outset to be room & contents in size and not much larger than that. Unfortunately, the fire had taken possession of the void spaces in the walls and ran to the cockloft and down the Delta side. Once the guys figured out they not only had fire in front of them, but also behind, beside and above them, the switch was made to a defensive attack which lasted much of the rest of the day. The building is a total loss and 21 people have been displaced. On one positive note, this job was the first fire for the departments brand new 2009 Pierce Saber assigned to Engine Co. 2 and the new rig performed very well under this trial by fire.

West Springfield, MA 3rd alarm 56 Bridge St. 5/27/10

Classify this one under the heading: "Didn't see that one comin'!" Sho ...

Updated: May 29, 2010 7:00pm PST

Gallery Categories

2013 : 14 galleries with 276 photos

2013

14 galleries with 276 photos

Updated: May 17, 2013 5:02pm PST

2012 : 24 galleries with 757 photos

2012

24 galleries with 757 photos

Updated: Dec 24, 2012 10:37am PST

Firehouses : 1 gallery with 20 photos

Firehouses

1 gallery with 20 photos

Updated: Jul 24, 2012 9:49pm PST

2011 : 30 galleries with 1803 photos

2011

30 galleries with 1803 photos

Updated: Dec 25, 2011 9:30am PST

6/1/11 Tornado strike : 1 gallery with 140 photos

6/1/11 Tornado strike

1 gallery with 140 photos

Updated: Jun 03, 2011 5:00pm PST

2010 : 26 galleries with 1297 photos

2010

26 galleries with 1297 photos

Updated: Dec 30, 2010 9:01pm PST

2009 : 22 galleries with 992 photos

2009

22 galleries with 992 photos

Updated: Dec 16, 2009 9:35am PST

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