[Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG

[JOHN ANTONELLI]

Keep it coming


From: "Brooks, Kurt" <knbrooks at wusa9.com>
>To: JOHN ANTONELLI <johnantonelli at verizon.net>; "Scan-DC (scan-dc at mailman.qth.net)" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 9:25 AM
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
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>I will try to keep up a running commentary for a few days so everyone can see how atypical last night was. Normally life does not revolve around spot news.
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>Last night at the first event I was fortunate enough to park fairly close to the scene. I still opted not to take my tripod because I broke my foot last May and it still hurts, so I went light. The fire was out so I was able to get the video I needed pretty quick and then sweet talked the Batallion Chief into giving me some sound. Then I got into a long talk with the shooter from 7 who used to work with me but was bought out a couple years ago, and I ended up giving him a ride back to his truck because he was parked much further away.
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>Then I went back to the station and was hoping to go home (my shift had ended at 8 but they were holding me in case of breaking news.) I was back in an edit bay watching the Ravens game on the server (I'm from Baltimore - sue me!) when I saw the PGFDPIO Twitter feed then heard the footsteps of the assignment editor.
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>They sent me and a reporter Matt Jablow, who lives in Baltimore and wanted to drive his own car. Before I left I took a look at the ADC map of the scene at Rt 3 and Rt 450 and informed the desk I could not get live out of there. Bowie is bad to begin with, and this area had a lot of streams nearby which indicates low ground. A microwave shot needs high ground.
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>Well no-one saidanything so off I went in my Suburban short mast live truck. We made good time, jumped off 50 at 197 then up to 450. About 2 miles from the accident we hit a roadblock, but the PG cops were ready for us and we got an escort in, which was a first for me! Nice guy!
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>Of course a halfmile before the intersection we crested a hill and took a long ride down to the scene. Once there I called the station to announce our arrival (10:45pm) and they started screaming for a live shot. Grr.
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>I said no. I have been doing this 23 years. I have a clue.
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>Well much gnashing of teeth later I am ordered to try. Twenty minutes effort goes by, still no. Now it's 11:15 and it doesn't matter anyway.
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>So we shoot an interview with Mark Brady, PIO and Matt Jablow takes off for home. I stick around another 10 minutes and fire off 4 minutes of scene video then depaert for home.
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>Once I get home I ingest my tape into this laptop, squeeze it down and feed it to the server at the station for the morning shows. I get to sleepat 2am.
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>I expect to get chewed out when I go to work today. Not that I am worried about it.
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>This morning I will finish waking up then I will run in to DC where my good friend is having an angioplasty today at Washington Hospital Center. I will hang with his wife until my shift at 2.
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>I will try to give the list updates as to what my day is like, if it amuses y'all. I enjoy telling stories (I am in tv news) so if you want to be my audience, great!
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>Finally I will leave you with a link to a youtube which shows me in action back during the blizzards, and another fun story.
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>Unit 5 10-7
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>http://youtu.be/A-arZyp-x7M
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>http://youtu.be/hRSCStseNfI
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>________________________________
>From: JOHN ANTONELLI [johnantonelli at verizon.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:12 AM
>To: Matt Stevens; Brooks, Kurt
>Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
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>It is very cool to watch the news and see the work of Unit 5
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>From: Matt Stevens <fivealarmphotography at gmail.com>
>To: "Brooks, Kurt" <knbrooks at wusa9.com>
>Cc: "scan-dc at mailman.qth.net" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 10:19 PM
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
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>2 Engines, 1 Tanker, 1 Paramedic and Battalion Chief 2 from Anne Arundel
>County are enroute.
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>Crash Rigs from BWI Airport are also enroute. They do not have any radio
>contact with PG. BWI dispatch told the BWI FD units that people on scene
>would give them radios.
>On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Brooks, Kurt <knbrooks at wusa9.com<mailto:knbrooks at wusa9.com>> wrote:
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>> Overturned fuel tanker sb 301 @ 450.
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