So I was sitting outside last night as I usually do after a long hard nights viewing of the two shows that have me captivated on the Netflix Roku doohickie.. And sitting there hearing the distant shouts from the baseball fields as there be fun afoot down there.. I smell barbecue burgers, that smells nice.. Contemplating my next move as I think where did the summer go, and it's chillin'... Feeling good because my sweat glands aren't being over taxed at this time of night.. Thinking about going in and sitting on the thunder mug, then heading off to bed.. Then this double click sound happens.. Just for a second I thought, what's that about and then the fire whistle goes off. AGAIN!! Earlier in the week we had it go off at three or so in the morning.. This was again again.. And it blew for what seems like forever.. I am out watching the guys show up and they send out the box truck.. The box is the EMT like ambulance response.. That's what I thought.. Somebody was having too much fun.. Then one fire truck pulls out.. Then another.. and another.. We watch as the truck pulls out then up the street to the west and I'm thinking someone huge has fallen and they can't get up, and it's gonna take the fire department as a whole to get him/her up.. Not the case as i went out front and saw the trucks zig zag down the streets.. They can't find the fire?? They get down about three blocks and it looks like smoke down there but it also looks like dust.. What it is?? Turns out it was a house.. Damn, and i would have likely heard the call on the scanner if I were in the house.. I was chillin' outside.. This surprised me that this house burned, I didn't think it was hooked up to the city electricty.. I buzzed around town a little trying to "rubber neck" as much as I felt was good, but I never try to get up close while they are working to get the fire out.. Went home and was listening to the scanner as a few more units from out of town came to help extinguish the fire..
The next day (today) I went up and shot some video.. I'm not a big fan of stopping and getting out and taking pictures.. or gawking as they say, so the video is a quick bit..
One of the things from the fire and this wasn't able to be helped.. My nephew was down for the night (actually for the weekend) and the alarm went off for the fire, in his town they have full pager system, much like they do here, but here it seems some do and a lot of them either don't have pagers or they ignore them.. It seems like we keep having them keep getting called to arms by way of the whistle civil defense alarm.. And so the little guy was all about the fire for the next hour or two.. Now when I saw that the trucks were here in town just a few blocks away I wondered where they were really at, so after things settled down a bit, I snuck out the house to drive and see.. The reason I didn't want the little guy to go with me is my memory of going out with my parents when a fire was broken out just a block away on mainstreet back when I was quite little, and it was a night fire like last night.. And I was traumatized a little (a lot) and I didn't want the same thing to happen to him.. So I done sneaked out to see what was there..
Today the aftermath was in the video.. I wanted to see the before the fire, what it looked like before the fire and looked on Google maps and Google Earth and it was all pixelated out.. Really strange, I thought they might get that like that by Tuesday but literally hours later. Quite a strange site..
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