Wednesday, February 15, 2006Fire In The Hole!
There are some things in life that are just really freakin' cool.
One of those things is fire shooting out of the ground, almost thirty feet into the air.
The morning started out simple enough. The Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino just off the strip was set to be imploded at 2:30 AM. (Follow the link for video.) I had one of the greatest views from the 26th floor of Bally's, across the street. It was a neat experience because I was set to go live from up there. I was wondering if I was going to have to string 26 floors of cable, but no. I was issued our nifty little 'Stinger'. A portable microwave transmitter!
It's really fucking heavy, and now my arm hurts.
Anyway, as all this is going on, there is a report of a fire. That's nothing interesting as there is a lot of fires here. But it's a gas fire, so they pull one of our ground crews off the implosion and send them.
The implosion goes off without a hitch. I get some interviews, pack up, and head back down to the car. After returning my junk to the station, and editing a quick VO that I had shot earlier, I hope into my live truck to go trolling for news.
It's now about 5 AM, so I set the radio in the live truck to listen to the IFB feed, so I know what's going on. Ashanti, at the fire reports that it's STILL burning (this is 4+ hours later) and that flames are over 20 feet high!
"WTF?!" I ask myself. I decided that this was something I would HAVE to see in person, so I haul ass back towards Flamingo and Arville in the valley's southwest side (this is near the Palms and the Rio, FYI).
I could see the fire from about 6 blocks away at Desert Inn and Arville.
The pictures are a little over exposed, but it's a camera phone. I snapped one on my digital camera and it was freakin' useless.
But like I said, it was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY cool. It was kind of like the construction crew dug a little bit too far and broke into hell! And now Satan was all pissed off 'cause he's loosing precious fire!
No body got hurt as well! Traffic was a CF since they had to shut Flamingo down to fix the road (once they got the gas that was feeding the fire shut off).
What's funny is that I am always scolding people for standing around and gawking - I usually tell them I get paid to do it, what's their excuse - yet here I was standing next to the crew from NBC, doing everything I possibly can to not slip into full Beavis mode and start laughing and screaming 'FIRE FIRE! HEH HEH!'.
Too bad the last big hole I was on only had stinky sewer gas flowing out of it!
One of those things is fire shooting out of the ground, almost thirty feet into the air.
The morning started out simple enough. The Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino just off the strip was set to be imploded at 2:30 AM. (Follow the link for video.) I had one of the greatest views from the 26th floor of Bally's, across the street. It was a neat experience because I was set to go live from up there. I was wondering if I was going to have to string 26 floors of cable, but no. I was issued our nifty little 'Stinger'. A portable microwave transmitter!
It's really fucking heavy, and now my arm hurts.
Anyway, as all this is going on, there is a report of a fire. That's nothing interesting as there is a lot of fires here. But it's a gas fire, so they pull one of our ground crews off the implosion and send them.
The implosion goes off without a hitch. I get some interviews, pack up, and head back down to the car. After returning my junk to the station, and editing a quick VO that I had shot earlier, I hope into my live truck to go trolling for news.
It's now about 5 AM, so I set the radio in the live truck to listen to the IFB feed, so I know what's going on. Ashanti, at the fire reports that it's STILL burning (this is 4+ hours later) and that flames are over 20 feet high!
"WTF?!" I ask myself. I decided that this was something I would HAVE to see in person, so I haul ass back towards Flamingo and Arville in the valley's southwest side (this is near the Palms and the Rio, FYI).
I could see the fire from about 6 blocks away at Desert Inn and Arville.
The pictures are a little over exposed, but it's a camera phone. I snapped one on my digital camera and it was freakin' useless.
But like I said, it was REALLY, REALLY, REALLY cool. It was kind of like the construction crew dug a little bit too far and broke into hell! And now Satan was all pissed off 'cause he's loosing precious fire!
No body got hurt as well! Traffic was a CF since they had to shut Flamingo down to fix the road (once they got the gas that was feeding the fire shut off).
What's funny is that I am always scolding people for standing around and gawking - I usually tell them I get paid to do it, what's their excuse - yet here I was standing next to the crew from NBC, doing everything I possibly can to not slip into full Beavis mode and start laughing and screaming 'FIRE FIRE! HEH HEH!'.
Too bad the last big hole I was on only had stinky sewer gas flowing out of it!
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