J wakes me up @ 2am; "do you smell all that smoke, thats not our wood fire is it?" I check it out, "no-no, its cool; maybe the chimneys smokey and we're catching it back through the window. Happen to look out the office window on my way past, to see that the east end of the empty block next door is completely ablaze.
From there its a montage of images of me calling the fire department, trying to calm my dogs amidst the smoke and getting J & S- bundled into the car and off to J's parents. Then I grabbed a hose and ran it up and down my fence line just in case. The fire trucks rolled up in short order, all local volunteers in the State Emergency Service (S.E.S). So I just stood back and watched them go to work. It took them about an hour to get the blaze totally under control. Meanwhile I tried to shut the house up so that more smoke didn't come in and spent a bit of time calming my dogs. When it looked like the firies had the blaze beat I took off for the in-laws and crashed out on the floor at 4am. Now its 8 & I have to get ready for work.
joy.
Turns out someone burnt out a stolen car on the corner of the road and the flames must have jumped to the block. Fuckers, hope they choke.
Later
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