Wednesday morning I was sent to photograph ice rescue training on a suburban St. Louis lake. It has been unusually cold around here the last few weeks - and the lake was coated with about six inches of ice. Coincidentally, two kids were rescued after falling through ice the night before - which gave us a news hook, or reason to go take pictures of the training.
I like taking tight shots of faces - though a lot of times they aren't published. I thought the ice on this trainer's gloves captured the cold they were working in.
I arrived near the end of the exercise. The men training in the water were wearing what looked like yellow, rubberized dry suits. From a short distance away, the suits looked like the ones that Coast Guard rescue divers wear. But when the firefighters came to shore, I noticed their suits weren't waterproof. I thought it was cold on shore ... it had to be incredibly freezing in the water.
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