Kenton Street Fire

Here are a couple of photos from an apartment fire on Kenton Street near Transylvania University’s Campus Friday evening. I was on my way to the Henry Clay/Bryan Station basketball game when I got the call to head over to the fire. I was a bit late getting there, so the yellow tape was up, seriously restricting the view of the house. A big thanks goes to homeowner Carl Heltzel for letting me hang out of his upstairs bathroom window to get the shot above. The photo below is what could be seen from street level, but I really couldn’t get a good view of the firefighters doing their jobs. One firefighter suffered minor burns and treated at the scene and some apartment residents were treated at the scene. One injured resident jumped out the second-floor window and taken to the hospital.

Shot with a Canon 1D MkII, 70-200, 1/40th sec. at f2.8 at ISO 800. (People often ask why we have such big and expensive lenses - well, this is a good example. An f/4 or f5.6 lens would have been much, much tougher to get a sharp photo at such slow shutter speeds.)

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