Palmetto Trail, Big Shoals
It was mid April of 2011. Riding along the Palmetto Trail, I abruptly came upon a Forestry Service worker in his truck with bulldozer. He said, you may want to hurry on, we are about to do a controlled burn. I agreed and then something inside said, take his photograph. I asked if he would mind if I took a quick photograph. He said it was OK. I took it, thanked him and moved on. On June 20th, 2011, Brett Fulton and Josh Burch were killed in the Blue Ribbon Fire in Hamilton County. Upon comparing newspaper photographs of the two men, I realized that I had taken one of the last photographs of Brett. The photograph now hangs in memorial at my friend Rick Bringger's Firehouse Subs in Lake City, Florida.
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