we seem to be doing a lot of stories these days that entail getting portraits of people after they talk to us about their recent tragedy - granted, there have been an unusually high amount of them this summer - from Nevaeh, to hit and runs, to fires galore - earlier this week we went out to talk to 2 men who are both victims of a fire - one, the guy whose apartment burned - seen here with his sister - and the other his neighbor, who is in poor health and is dealing with the after-effects of the smoke and soot damage that got into his adjacent apartment, and the insurance companies as he tries to get his clean-up costs squared away (his portrait was pretty pedestrian, so i'm not gonna post it, but i did like this one of the guy and his sister) - the real impetus for this story was the fact that the city policeman, who was first on the scene and went in and dragged this guy, unconscious, from the burning and smoke-filled apartment, is now in a case filed by MIOSHA for violating safety rules, since he's not technically equipped to go into a burning structure - i guess they wanted him to just stand there and let the guy die while they waited for the fire department to get there - pretty friggin ridiculous....anyway, that was my tuesday work
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