Local Hero, age 15

Ian Swank, a 15-year-old Junior Firefighter, heard a call about a fire on a bridge on his street in the scanner he keeps on in his garage. He grabbed a fire extinguisher from his home, asked his mom for a ride to the bridge, and extinguished the fire before emergency vehicles arrived on the scene.

I wanted to keep the portrait simple, but still show the damage and some of his personality. The natural light on the bridge worked well; Ian certainly looks heroic. My editor said he was glad I didn't "cheese it up".

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Ian Swank, a 15-year-old junior fireman with the Turkeytown Volunteer Fire Department, stands on the damaged Bells Mills Covered Bridge in South Huntingdon, where he extinguished a fire on Monday afternoon.
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