24. Pripyat Fire Station

I’ve never seen any photos of this place, so was pretty keen to get here and document it.
Large enough for 4 engines:




Firemans boot and vodka: Liquidators were given copious amounts of vodka, weather it was for extra courage, for extra payment, or to dull the senses I don’t know.


This led me to crate of empty vodka bottles:


Which led me to a room of empty vodka bottles….


Hat and engine number:




A lot of the rooms were surprisingly trashed:








Yet some were in surprisingly good condition:






Firemans paperwork:




Paperwork from 1980:


Paperwork from 1988 (2 years after disaster)


Paperwork from 1990


Gasmask


Chair


Vodka


Pills:


Vodka


Pills:






In Chernobyl, light bulb lights itself…


Mural:






I spotted a firemans tower, and just had to go for a climb:


Reactor 4 in the distance


View to front:


View to rear:


I stand there taking in the sight of Reactor 4, and the rest of the city, and decide where I want to go next…



2014 Update:

Not much to add from this visit really, except I notice this ladder / cage thing procariously botled to the top of the tower, and thought "ooh, I need to go and stand in that..."