I came across this photo in my stories earlier today that captured a small moment after the firefighters had extinguished the fuel tank fire at the airport. It was taken by the Kuwait Fire Force’s photographer and I got the high resolution photo from one of the firefighters who took part in the operation (@ponato). I thought I would share it because it’s genuinely uplifting and they definitely deserve the attention.
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Hope in the shadow of a conflict. It bears uncanny resemblance with some of the photographs from NatGeo’s coverage on capping of the torched oil wells in Kuwait in 91.
These guys deserve every bit of recognition they get. To fight an oil fire is not an easy task no matter how much training you get. God Bless them and keep them safe always. On resemblances, yes the old Nat Geo pics of Read Adair and the oil fire fighting crews did come to mind. But honestly the first thing the pic reminded me of was the aftermath after 9/11 seeing pics of NYC police and fire department personnel covered in concrete dust and ash falling from the sky like snow fall.. Very eerie….
*** Red Adair*** sorry for the typo .. Lack of sleep from Sirens and tornado warnings going off on my my phone at 2 AM !!!
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such a heartwarming photo, i keep coming back to this post. ❤️❤️❤️