I was practicing my drive-by shooting skills on these hard working firefighters. They cordoned this whole place for their practice. There was no easy way to park the car without crashing the party, so I shot it all through the opened car window as I was slowly passing by.

There were a few interesting things I noticed that provoked me to take and keep this shot:

• Look at all their vehicles. Few of them might be official department drives, but I'm pretty sure the rest are private. These guys are really SUV/truck types.
• Look how they crowd each other here. Again, this is just a guess, but I'd bet that the reason is because they are learning from each other here. In real situations they would give each other space to work, and be busy with other ways to help.
• Look at those pieces of wood behind the truck. What are they doing with them? Is it an excavation from a hole and they need a support in this sand? I'm really not sure. I should stop and asked some questions when I had a chance.
• This is a big vacant lot with very uneven terrain. It is in a good place, so I do not know why is it not sold to a builder yet, but every once in a while I see some activities like this, which makes me glad it exists. It is good to have a good place for these guys to practice their skills, because when it is for real, one of us might depend on those very skills they learned here today.
• If you ever want to do this kind of stunt, make sure that you are watching the road - not the camera, and keep your windows opened as the optical characteristics of car windows is not helping your photos at all.

Support your firefighters! They are next best thing to not getting in trouble in the first place. :)

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Не виђам баш често ватрогасце како вежбају, али ми је драго да имају шансе да пробају неке ствари када животи нису у опасности. Немојте никада заборавити да би неки од тих живота сутра могао бити баш ваш. Зато треба ценити ове момке који су буквално спремни да гурну руку у ватру због вас, иако вас никада нису видели, а можда сте и гласали да им се смањи буџет за ову годину.

Погледајте мало каква кола возе. Можда је понеко и службено возило, али мислим да је већина приватна. То су такви момци. Воле да су им и кола напумпана као и они.

Баш су се лепо организовали, па имају чак и клоњу ако некоме од страха треба променити пелене.

Да ли неко може да ми каже шта су то радили овде? Видим да имају гомилу неких дасака, али се не види шта заправо вежбају. Вађење из рупе? Не знам.

Пролазио сам колима, спустио прозор, наместио камеру на брзу паљбу и окидао на слепо. Није баш било где да се паркира, тако да нисам стао да их питам шта раде и да опалим неку бољу слику.
Сад ми је жао. Требао сам. :(