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Tonight there was a house fire very close to my own, just around the block. I can best explain the location by describing it as a (chess piece) knight’s move away: one house to the left, and two houses up. I could not (and did not want to) get very close, but I believe there were at least 5, and as many as 8, fire trucks as well as police cars and a few other emergency vehicles. This included a “Salvation Army Rescue Unit” vehicle (shaped like an ambulance) parked in front of my next door neighbors’ house.

It was pretty scary because it was the first time I’ve ever experienced a building fire so close to my own home. When I was a kid there was a huge car fire just across the street from my suburban house, but a car fire is much more limited. Only a month or two ago there was a fatal house fire about a mile, mile and a half, from my house (happened to drive past while the fire trucks were still there). That house is still black and charred and not really boarded up on the 2nd floor.

Right now there is some kind of cleanup going on in the house around the block, but at last all the fire trucks and police have gone. The smoky odor is still lingering in my own house; I was coughing for a while especially after walking the long way around the block to find out what was happening. I wasn’t able to find out if anyone was inside or home; I’m assuming (hoping) that no one was hurt.