When your Meth Lab BLOWS!….

Two men rescue three trapped in burning home after the Meth Lab inside explodes. Colton California, Barton Road. Please note the last shot in this story, (the ambulance with house up the hill in the distance) I added this intentionally so that you can see where the Colton Police Departments censorship squad forced myself and the other news media to go to, once they arrived on the scene. If they had shown up earlier or if the uniforms on scene had taken more interest, as OFTEN happens, in what the news photographer is doing I would not have been able to get the interviews with the rescuers or shoot most of the video that effectively tells this story. Denial of access equals censorship. The First Amendment must apply to the right to gather news and function on the streets of America without government/police interference as much as it applies to the right to publish and broadcast. Freedom of speech and Freedom of the Press are laws, laws to be enforced. Not personal choices or options for those who wear badges. News Photography is not a crime. *Photographers Note: Gentle Viewers and Others…. No one knew that this fire involved a “Meth Lab” The fire department dispatched the call as a structure fire with people trapped. If you listen carefully during the interview you will hear the men involved describe what they saw and how they responded as they passed the residence. Obviously they could not have known that there was a meth lab. Apparently what many of you would have had …