Photo of the Week -- Just in time

Photographer Don Leach had a million things to do Wednesday. He was

leaving for Peru the following morning and had to organize gear to both

surf near Lima and hike to Machu Picchu.

As he walked into the photo room after shooting numerous assignments,

a call went out on the police scanner for a heavy rescue and that a

life-flight helicopter would be needed. Although, he had multitudes of

errands, this call was too important to ignore.

Racing to the scene he could see the helicopter above and realized he

missed the main rescue. But, he continued to the scene and photographed

firefighters investigating the wreckage that had gone off the road.

Don was kicking himself the rest of the day for not making it there in

time, yet, his photo still tells the story that this was a very serious

accident.

-- Steve McCrank, photo supervisor