NOLAN TORNQUIST
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1995 - 2015
TELEVISION NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER / EDITOR / HELICOPTER ARIAL VIDEOGRAPHER / BUREAU CHIEF NORTHERN ARIZONA / MICROWAVE LIVE TRUCK 
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In dramatic Live coverage, two women were about to be swallowed by a thousand year flood rushing thru New River. 
The story ultimately became about, "Finding the Animals..." 
My all time favorite breaking news story was an Amber Alert in the year 1999. This was before The Amber Alert was the code name.
A mother was shopping at a corner market with her 9 mo. old baby. She came out of the store and buckled the baby in the car, and while putting away the groceries, she realized she forgot something. The car engine was running, baby in the car. She runs into store to retrieve her missing item. When she came out, both the car and baby were gone. Meanwhile, a media storm was brewing with an all out search for the baby.  I was a young ambitious TV news photographer at the time listening to the police scanners. Police were on the lookout for a midsize blue sedan. I was probed the neighborhoods and found the stolen car. The lone baby was asleep in the back seat. This was fantastic... I called my assignment editor. It was fun watching the frenzied Press and emergency vehicles roll straight toward me. And Wham! The money shot of Mom being reunited with baby... It was the first time I became the headline... 
"TV NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER FINDS MISSING BABY"

BREAKING  NEWS  TV  NEWS  PHOTOGRAPHER  3TV KTVK        1998 - 2015  PHOENIX

3TV reporter Jaime Cerreta & Photographer Nolan Tornquist weather Phoenix dustnado storm

Storm Chasers Time Lapse 3TV News Covering the 1st Dust Storm of Monsoon 2014 Storm chaser Bryan Snider

COVERING HURRICANE KATRINA

Photographer Nolan Tornquist and reporter Mike Watkiss September 2005 It was a grim disaster area full of desperation and looting. A polarized community desperate to keep safe posting signs, "you loot we shoot." Even the dead couldn't find rest in the battered coastal town of Biloxi, Mississippi.



 1999 - 2005   Phoenix
Aerial  News  Photographer  News  Chopper  3    

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Arizona!


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Northern  Arizona  Bureau          Flagstaff  2005 -  2011

​During the cold hours of January 2011, the snow Storm of the Century embellishes Flagstaff. When television antennas froze out of service,  my Garage became a makeshift TV studio. Television history was made broadcasting reports using a new revolutionary tool, known as, "Skype". 

Assigned to play in the snow... flagstaff, az

Northern Arizona Bureau News Photographer Nolan tornquist

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In 1999, I had the distinct pleasure of training in the Phoenix Fire Department's Media workshop. It was a unique opportunity to get an overview of what it takes to become a firefighter. 
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