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Cincinnati Fire Department recruits during a training drill
March 28, 2015

Top of the Ladder

Cincinnati Fire Department recruits participate in a morning drill. The assignment? Climb to the top of a hundred-foot aerial ladder. Your Shot member Adam Schierberg, also a firefighter, positioned himself at the top of a drill tower to get this shot. “My intention was to capture the intensity of the climb by taking a vertical approach that also captured [the] anxiously awaiting candidates,” he writes.

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Photograph by Adam Schierberg, National Geographic Your Shot

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