Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Sean Cochran, owner of a home at 2321 Guilderland Avenue in Schenectady, right, looks on as Schenectady County officials work on the scene where the driver of a pick-up truck drove in to the front of his home Sunday evening. The front window of the home, along with the front porch were both damaged in the accident.