Peering out into a scorching gritty wind, the pump operator on a Monaro District tanker winces as he strains to keep sight of his nozzle man, [30 January 2003] [picture] / Jeff Cutting
- Bib ID:
- 3523487
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2003
- 1 photograph : col. ; image 19 x 27.2 cm., on sheet 21 x 29.8 cm.
- Series:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945- Blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Summary:
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"Clearview Range Road, Michelago at 1820 hrs, 30:01:2003. With the temperature near to 40 degrees, and dressed up from head-to-toe in flameproof gear, fire fighters were working in a sauna and facing into a blast furnace. I retired out of this to my sun-heated car for relief"--Note from the photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.
- Inscriptions: Signed by the photographer in pencil on reverse; "26-31"--in pencil on reverse.
- Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149600717
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2005.
- Subject:
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- Fire extinction -- New South Wales -- Michelago Region -- Photographs
- Fire extinction -- Water supply -- Photographs
- Volunteer fire fighters -- New South Wales -- Michelago Region -- Photographs
- Volunteer fire fighters -- New South Wales -- Monaro -- Photographs
- Fire engines -- New South Wales -- Monaro -- Photographs
- Fire engines -- New South Wales -- Michelago Region -- Photographs
- Forest fires -- New South Wales -- Michelago Region -- Photographs
- Wildfires -- New South Wales -- Michelago Region -- Photographs
- Natural disasters -- New South Wales -- Michelago Region -- Photographs
- Occupation:
- Fire fighters
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2003
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