At 2:00 pm today, Sept. 19, 2010 the residents of Boulder, evacuees from the fire and well-wishers lined Pearl Street to publicly thank all the fire crews that worked the Fourmile Fire. I was there to record the event. Here’s the photos and videos I took. Please feel free to use any of this material any way you like. If possible, an attribution of ‘Courtesy of FreeRangeLongmont.com’ is appreciated but not required. There’s also a great poster available at FourMileHeroes.org. All proceeds go to benefit local firefighters.

I polled a number of firefighters with this question: “How does it feel to be a celebrity?” and got almost exactly the same answer in every case: “Not me.” These men and women risk their lives and don’t consider themselves heroes – just ‘glad we got to play that day’ – God Bless You ALL.

Here’s my Flickr gallery of photos from this event. Please feel free to use any of these photos any way you like. If possible, an attribution of ‘Courtesy of FreeRangeLongmont.com’ is appreciated but not required.