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The official site of fire photographer Sylvain Pedneault

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Thursday, March 24, 2011 - FDIC Indianapolis 2011

For a third time in my career, I was in the St.Hyacinthe delegation to the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) in Indianapolis. Here are a few images of the conference.

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Monday, March 24, 2008 - Fire in a central vacuum system

Ashes that were still warm have apparently been picked up by the central vacuum system, causing a fire in a technical room.

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Saturday, March 24, 2007 - St.Liboire Fire Department

St.Liboire's fire department organized a large dinner to raise funds. It was also a great time to congratulate a firefighter, a chief and the director for 21, 23 and 30 years of service

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Friday, March 24, 2006 - Smoke in the municipal library

A call received as "municipal building fire" had a happy turnout when the source of the smoke was discovered to be a defective motor.

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Friday, March 24, 2006 - Extrication on Grand Rang road

Saint-Hyacinthe firefighters and paramedics did a delicate and complex extrication operation on a car that collided with a ciment wall in a ditch.

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Here are the photographic archives of FireLens.com, where are published more than 47,000 photographs from the world of emergency services.

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47,427 images

Here are the photographic archives of FireLens.com, where are published more than 47,000 photographs from the world of emergency services.

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Saturday, August 12, 2017 - Live burn in Rougemont

The Rougemont Fire Department organized a training day in an abandoned building. In total, 3 controlled burns and a final burn allowed participants to learn more about fire behaviour,...

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Saturday, October 8, 2016 - Live burn in Upton

The Upton Fire Department organized a training day in an abandoned building. In total, 5 controlled burns and a final burn allowed participants to learn more about fire behaviour, water...

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - Residential fire in St.Eugene

Fire completely destroyed a large residential building in St.Eugene near Drummondville.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - Barn fire in St.Hugues

A fire completely destroyed a barn on Bourchemin West road in St.Hugues. When firefighters arrived, the fire had already spreaded to most of the building.

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Sunday, April 27, 2014 - Live burn in St.Hugues

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - Second alarm in St.Hyacinthe

St.Hyacinthe firefighters requested a second alarm to fight a fire in a detached residential garage.

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Incident map

Incidents on FireLens.com are geocoded, that is they are tagged with a longitude and a latitude. That information is used here to present a Google Maps geographical map of all incidents covered by FireLens.com. Each marker displayed on the map is clickable.

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About

FireLens.com

FireLens.com currently publishes a total of 47,427 images taken by fire photographer Sylvain Pedneault on 1296 emergency calls that happened over a period of more than 18 years.

Initially started as an easy way to share photographs with firefighters appearing on them, the site quickly grew in popularity, and eventually became one of the largest single-author fire photography web sites. The map displays quite impressively the magnitude of the site's content!

Sylvain Pedneault

Having discovered the domain of firefighting through photography in 2002, I founded FireLens.com as well as many other related projects over the years. I eventually became a firefighter, then promoted lieutenant, and finally captain. I also specialize in firefighter health and safety. In other words, I keep busy! ;)

  • Firefighter (full-time), Renouveau La Fontaine C-C s.e.n.c. Fire Brigade (Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel)
  • Captain, St.Dominique Fire Department
  • Race track firefighter, Autodrome Granby & Multi-Soins
  • Fire photographer, Lentille.com and 14 fire departments
  • Photographer (studio), Studio.Lentille.com
  • Full-stack software developer, Gestion Technologies