Fire Capt. Clint Greenley fights fires and paints pictures. Both, he has loved since he was a child. This year, he found a way to bring the two together.
With the completion of Fire District 6’s new Station 63 in Salmon Creek earlier this year, the agency found there to be quite a bit of blank wall space. The ideas to have a photo of one of the crews blown up onto the wall emerged.
Unfortunately, the quality of the photo was lacking and could not be placed on the wall. Capt. Greenley, who describes himself as a closet-artist, stepped forward.
“I suggested or offered my services to paint it on the wall, and everybody kind of looked at me like, ‘Oh, yeah, sure, whatever,’” Greenley said. “Chief Newberry was in charge of the station and, and doing all the interior and exterior work on it. So I went to him and said, ‘Hey, I’m still willing to do this. Would you like me to do a … mock up of this? So I did it on a piece of wood. Once I showed it to him, he was somewhat impressed, and so then he called Chief Mauer and she was impressed as well.”