FireLens.com

The official site of fire photographer Sylvain Pedneault

47,427 images

On a December 18...

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Friday, December 18, 2009 - Smoke in an apartment building

St.Hyacinthe firefighters have been called for a fire in a large appartment complex on Robert avenue. Thankfully, the smoke that some residents observed was mostly vapor caused by the...

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Monday, December 18, 2006 - Accident in St-Simon

St.Simon firefighters, St.Hyacinthe F.D.'s extrication unit, St.Hyacinthe paramedics, and Sûreté du Québec police officers converged toward the intersection of Charlotte road and Road 4...

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Sunday, December 18, 2005 - House fire

At 3h26 AM, Saint-Hyacinthe's fire department received a call for a residential fire on St-Pierre West st. Upon arrival, firefighters saw flammes coming out of one of the building's doors....

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Saturday, December 18, 2004 - Fire in a kid's room

A fire started in a kid's room and caused some damages in an appartment building.

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Saturday, December 18, 2004 - Truck fire at the hospital

A large fire destroyed a truck and reached the exterior walls of the Honoré-Mercier Hospital. A second alarm was triggered and the Haz-Mat team was called in.

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Thursday, December 18, 2003 - Electric pole fire

In the middle of a major snow storm, fire unit 205 answers a call for an electric pole fire.

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Here are the photographic archives of FireLens.com, where are published more than 47,000 photographs from the world of emergency services.

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47,427 images

Here are the photographic archives of FireLens.com, where are published more than 47,000 photographs from the world of emergency services.

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Saturday, August 12, 2017 - Live burn in Rougemont

The Rougemont Fire Department organized a training day in an abandoned building. In total, 3 controlled burns and a final burn allowed participants to learn more about fire behaviour,...

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Saturday, October 8, 2016 - Live burn in Upton

The Upton Fire Department organized a training day in an abandoned building. In total, 5 controlled burns and a final burn allowed participants to learn more about fire behaviour, water...

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - Residential fire in St.Eugene

Fire completely destroyed a large residential building in St.Eugene near Drummondville.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - Barn fire in St.Hugues

A fire completely destroyed a barn on Bourchemin West road in St.Hugues. When firefighters arrived, the fire had already spreaded to most of the building.

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Sunday, April 27, 2014 - Live burn in St.Hugues

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - Second alarm in St.Hyacinthe

St.Hyacinthe firefighters requested a second alarm to fight a fire in a detached residential garage.

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Incident map

Incidents on FireLens.com are geocoded, that is they are tagged with a longitude and a latitude. That information is used here to present a Google Maps geographical map of all incidents covered by FireLens.com. Each marker displayed on the map is clickable.

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About

FireLens.com

FireLens.com currently publishes a total of 47,427 images taken by fire photographer Sylvain Pedneault on 1296 emergency calls that happened over a period of more than 18 years.

Initially started as an easy way to share photographs with firefighters appearing on them, the site quickly grew in popularity, and eventually became one of the largest single-author fire photography web sites. The map displays quite impressively the magnitude of the site's content!

Sylvain Pedneault

Having discovered the domain of firefighting through photography in 2002, I founded FireLens.com as well as many other related projects over the years. I eventually became a firefighter, then promoted lieutenant, and finally captain. I also specialize in firefighter health and safety. In other words, I keep busy! ;)

  • Firefighter (full-time), Renouveau La Fontaine C-C s.e.n.c. Fire Brigade (Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel)
  • Captain, St.Dominique Fire Department
  • Race track firefighter, Autodrome Granby & Multi-Soins
  • Fire photographer, Lentille.com and 14 fire departments
  • Photographer (studio), Studio.Lentille.com
  • Full-stack software developer, Gestion Technologies