Fire

Exciting day on Friday - I wasn't feeling well, so I stayed home from work. About 2:30 or so, I noticed a fire truck outside. (Not that unusual - there's a station nearby, and we see them frequently.) Shortly thereafter, though, the one truck was joined by some of its friends - there really was a fire (across the street and down the block from us)!



That's not ash on the ground - it was just really cold (in the teens - it got down into the single/negative digits that night, and didn't recover until today).



Just a couple of trucks at first...



The mobile command unit was pretty cool. By the time the whole thing was over, there were a LOT of captains/lieutenants/etc. on the scene.





These pictures give a little idea of how much attention this fire got. There were fire trucks (I think we counted 4 ladders, 5 pumpers, and those were just the ones we could see), police cars, EMTs, the service truck for the firefighters and officers, and, of course, the mobile command unit. Our street was blocked off for two blocks to the east and at least 2-3 to the west.

Pretty impressive. Luckily, no injuries in the fire, though it looks like the building may be toast. (And the Trib is saying the fire started through misuse of a "heat gun" - be careful when you're deicing your locks or thawing your pipes!)