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Stuart Palley

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Jan 19,

(n/n) Story time! | The making of “Feather River’s Revenge” October 2020, I was on assignment for the US Forest Service, it was the middle of the night... (continued below) #terraflamma #wildfire #nftphotography.

(1/n): I’d just spent a week at the Glass Fire in Napa on assignment for National Geographic, after weeks of back and forth covering the 2020 NorCal Fire Siege. I’d barely been home, my dog was at daycare more than with me, and I was exhausted, physically and mentally.

(2/n): My equipment was falling apart, rubber grips peeling, sensors filthy, lens zoom cams gritty with ash and dust. My nomex fire pants had holes in them, my leather boot laces tied at multiple points after breaking from hiking all over and the heat.

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Jan 17,

So my insurance benefits changed this year for prescriptions and an asthma med I need daily to maintain quality of life cost $360 this month (rx deductible re-setting). Medical costs have increased 20-25% annually, yet some editorial clients still paying rates same as decade ago.

When people ding me for selling work as an NFT, or a print, or whatever the venue is, I think of the luxury of having a 9-5 where your healthcare costs less or is subsidized by an employer, and where you get a steady paycheck every two weeks.

Last week a public employee making 6 figures a year+benefits had the gall to tell me what I should and shouldn't be doing RE selling my work and making a living. It's just so rich and hypocritical. For editorial photogs, I fully support asking for and demand for more.

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Aug 30, 2021

I asked a local resident and firefighter from South Lake Tahoe if there's any chance of holding the Caldor Fire at Echo Summit tomorrow. He just responded "lol." I still hold hope out for a stand along US 50 tomorrow, but we need to be prepared for all contingencies.

Goodnight, be safe, and rest up. We're going to need it.

Echo summit was described to me as "looking down a gun barrel." Kudos to the IMT for being proactive on communications and evacuations while being calm, realistic, and direct. When a primary dozer line +2 contingencies get spotted over, I'm nearly at a loss foe words.

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Stuart Palley

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Aug 28, 2021

I've got a column of smoke showing from the Idylwild 1 fire camera, it's distant and could be structure fire. Looking south of the mountain toward Temecula. Probably RRU, anyone know whats up?

Looking at the camera angle and ridge it's on, looks to be west of I15, could be on the Pendleton Marine Base. Reaching out to local contacts for further into. Does appear to be a wildfire, however #CAFire. alertwildfire.org/inlandempire/i…

Higher res view

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Stuart Palley

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Aug 27, 2021

1/n: Alright I'll bite on the first responder vaccination mandate discussion: Ideally company level education, good medical advice, and promotion of facts vs. FUD should guide firefighters to get vaccinated. Now that Pfizer is FDA-approved, there's really no excuse.

2/n: You're never going to get 100% compliance. For example LACOFD Local 1014 is at 70%, recommending vaccination but opposing mandates. I think in fire, mandates will backfire. But you can't have first responders putting the general public at higher risk w/Delta.

3/n: Unfortunately mis-information is pretty rampant in the fire world (anecotal experience, n=12) so there's higher hesistancy. Weekly testing of those not vaccinated, and a higher insurance premium to compensate for higher risk for medical bills+legal exposure.

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Stuart Palley

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Aug 26, 2021

Impressed with how everyone on my social media feed in California is a fire behavior and climate expert, epidemiologist, and foreign policy and human rights scholar all at once. Must have been a lot of studying to get that universal research degree! (Sarcasm).

Note, there are literal experts in each subject I actually do follow, providing good intel and insight in current times. However, "eric" from college who now runs a weed grow is not one of them... #thursdaythoughts

I mean I'd listen to Eric about growing cannabis, but unless they were special forces in Badakshan I don't need their take on foreign policy.

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