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.
State Police Lt. Michael Tietz, right, addresses members of the media with Tech Sgt. Kathy Sweeney, left, and Tech Sgt. Thomas Dowling, who piloted helicopters that took part in a seizure of nearly 200 pounds of marijuana, stacked up behind them, at Albany International Airport on Tuesday.