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.
Mayor Brian Stratton, left, looks at a slideshow demonstration of how video surveillance cameras will be used in the effort to decrease gun violence as Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney speaks at the podium during a press conference in Jerry Burrell Park in Schenectady on Monday.
