Tonight, while driving home from my girlfriend’s house, I decided to turn on my frequency scanner to listen in on what might be happening around Pierce County. For the most part there was silence, nothing big going on for a Wednesday night, until a call of a car accident on Day Island, less than 5 minutes away from my house. I decided to check it out considering I didn’t have much else to do.
As soon as I pulled up, I saw that the car was burning in the front, flames at least 5 feet high. But the car was not just out in the open, it was front first into a house just over the bridge. This definitely sparked my interest and I turned right around to drive home so I could grab my camera and drive back out. I ended up staying at the accident scene for quite a while and took photographs, spoke with a gentleman named Tim who lives in the house, a University Place Sheriff’s Deputy and also spoke with Rick Price of KIRO 7 TV News and his videographer.
Long story short, the driver ran from the scene and was captured a short while later. A second passenger was rushed off to the hospital for internal bleeding (as far as I heard). And a third passenger was left at the scene speaking with University Place Sheriff’s Deputies. The fire was extinguished before I was able to return to take photographs, but I ended up with a few good shots of the action.
KIRO TV Channel 7 will most likely air today, Thursday the 9th of April, a story about the crash. And as soon as I edit this, it shows up.
One Injured After Car Crashes Into House Then Catches Fire
Andrew DeFilippis Photography accident, capture, car, Day Island, fire, home, house, Pierce County, Police
Today ended up being a very beautiful day. Yesterday and today reached about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
I decided to stop by Taco Del Mar to visit a friend of mine and noticed a beautiful blue car sitting in front, a Nissan Skyline. It was in good condition, in need of a bit of TLC, but for the most part, the car was a beauty.
These are some of the photographs I took today, posted on my Flickr Photostream.
Andrew DeFilippis Photography beautiful, Flickr, Nissan, Skyline
It’s been a while since I updated my blog. I haven’t been able to take photographs outside because of the rain and it is starting to get annoying.
Lately, I have been busy with work and spending time with my girlfriend. Within the past week, I have been working on my computer and replaced my old Netgear router with a Linksys WRT54G-TM Router. The reason for the switch was so that I could replace the firmware inside of the box with the newest version of DD-WRT. The new software is a breeze to setup and has a much better range of features for the router. The second modification I made to the box was to install a heatsink on the main chip and a fan on the top of the case to push more air into the box to cool down the components. This was a fun modification and has kept me from being bored with my free time. The WRT54G-TM model is better than some of the other routers because it has the available space to install the Mega version of DD-WRT. This model also runs a bit faster and won’t bog down as easy with heavy load.
I have a vacation coming up soon and I am saving up some money for the trip. Disney World HERE I COME! But really, I have only been to Disneyland and that was when I was 12 years old. My girlfriend and I booked a trip to fly to North Carolina to visit some of my family and from there we are all going to drive down to Florida to stay for a week. I will be taking my camera with me and I hope to come back with an awesome collection of photographs to post here and upload to flickr. The entire 10 day trip will be awesome, considering it has been a very long time since I have been out to N.C.
Andrew DeFilippis Daily Blah DD-WRT, Disney World, fan, Florida, free time, Linksys, modification, Netgear, North Carolina, rain, router, Vacation, WRT54G-TM
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