2012

Call it what you will, Favorite Photos, Best Photos, Top 10 + 10 + a couple more. Most of these are in their respective galleries, but for once I listed an End of Year Retrospective.

I did Top 10, Top fire photos, then best from the Jim Roy funeral. Too many to pick an absolute Top 10.

Trooper greets the New Year (2012) in the backyard, as the morning sun shines through the trees and the mist rises on another mild morning.
A chilly morning at home in January.
Templeton Ladder protects an exposure at the 4th Alarm mill fire in Athol in January. Quite a bastard to shoot a fire in a blizzard.
Point Judith, Rhode Island.
That is a dog not a dingo. Stazee looking for trouble in the screen room after finding some in the dirt underneath it.
Sunrise, Old Orchard Beach, Maine. August
Dawn at Pine Point, Scarborough, Maine, August 2012
Daybreak with a dinghy (ahem). Pine Point, Scarborough, Maine, August.
Jack doing his best Sebastian Vettel imitation. Looking fast at indoor karting in Maine.
FF Jim Roy's gear sits in front of the empty Engine 4 bay.
Pall bearers Capt Tad Dateo and FF Andrew Roy load the casket of FF Jim Roy onto Engine 4.
Engine 4 makes it's turn into Central Station bringing FF Jim Roy to the station one last time.
Lt Dante Suarez and D.C. Kevin Curran prepare to place flowers in front of the empty Engine 4 bay as on duty members salute.
Drum Major, Chief Fred Leblanc (Leominster FD retired) salutes as Engine 4 arrives at Our Lady of the Lake church, while the massed band plays.
Sean, Denise and PJ Roy enter the church with Abigail Roy in mother Megan's arms.
FF Patrick Haverty looks away as the casket of FF Jim Roy is wheeled into the church.
D.C. Dave Rousseau and FF Kristy Pappas drape the casket of FF Jim Roy with the department union flag as Engine 4 prepares to depart the church.
FF Rob Dacosta bears Jim Roy's helmet and his family looks on as his casket is placed on Engine 4 for the last time.
The Fitchburg FD Honor Guard passes under the American flag draped from Tower Ladder 2 and Barre Ladder 1 (old Fitchburg Ladder 3)
FF Richie (Sarge) Hawthorne gives a heartfelt, fitting final salute.
FFs Sean PJ and Chief Kevin Roy salute as Jim's casket is placed at the grave.
Jack refereeing soccer at Mt Wachusett Community College on a beautiful Saturday morning in the fall.
Patti giving her best on the field, mean/competitive look during the Middle School soccer season.
Leominster FF Bill Bisol stretches a 2 1/2" into the rear alley at the 7th Alm in November.
Lt Tony Lefebvre stretches a 2 1/2" in the rear of the building at the Leominster 7th Alm in November.
Leominster FFs grab another bottle to go back in at the 7th Alm on Columbia St downtown in November.
Possibly my favorite fireground photo of the year. Two of my favorite people; FF Brian Packard of the Devens FD and FF David Monty of the Westminster FD shortly after assisting in the rescue of 2 FFs from the bucket of Westminster Tower 1 after a section of wall and roof collapsed on it during the 7th Alm in Leominster in November.