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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Big Fire = Big News
When I looked out the window of my office this afternoon I saw a huge fire.
Some sort of chemical storage business exploded and has been burning now for a good 6 hours. The fire department is letting the fire burn itself out rather than risk sending people close to the fire.
When I left work, I discoved that the downtown area was covered with bits of ash. Most of the ash was tiny. But some of the ash was a lot bigger. The snapshot shows a bit that was next to my car (roughly a mile from the fire). That's a big bit of ash.
I can't imagine that breathing the air downtown was a good idea. I was glad that the wind was not blowing toward home.
