{"id":9635,"date":"2017-12-23T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=9635"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:53:30","slug":"lifes-work-part-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/lifes-work-part-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Work, Part XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Casino Clogston. He\u00a0began fighting fires when he was sixteen years old, when his grandfather was the Fire Chief, around 1985. Firefighting equipment is getting better and safer all the time, but firefighters still regularly carry over 100 pounds of gear while they work. The hood he is wearing here inside his helmet provides protection from steam burns. He told me that once, while working with his grandfather, he got second-degree steam burns on his ears. The steam burns were not from the water coming from the fire hoses, but from his own sweat. \u201cBut we saved five people that day,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nCasino, Fire Chief, Plymouth, NH<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9637 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB-480x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-1-WEB.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9638 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB-480x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-5-WEB.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9636 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB-480x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lifes-Work-Firefighter-12-WEB.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\nYou can see Parts I-XIV here: <a href=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/lifes-work\/\">http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/lifes-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Casino Clogston. He\u00a0began fighting fires when he was sixteen years old, when his grandfather was the Fire Chief, around 1985. Firefighting equipment is getting better and safer all the time, but firefighters still regularly carry over 100 pounds of gear while they work. The hood he is wearing here inside his helmet provides<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/lifes-work-part-xv\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,12,21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifes-work","category-photography","category-portraits","category-projects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9635"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21659,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9635\/revisions\/21659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}