The big fire
Big fire downtown today, in the abandoned building across the street from Grex. I stopped by on the way home from work to see what was going on. I wish I had a camera, but I didn’t . Anyway, the building has been fenced off for a month or so, and I seem to remember squatters being busted there some time ago. The part of it facing Huron was a raging inferno when I was there. The whole roofline was ablaze. Pretty cool. The firemen were mostly lobbing water over the top of the building onto the fire, which doesn’t seem like a very effective tatic. It’s been my experience that you have to get into the fire and shoot at the base of it. But then, since it was an abandoned building in the process of being torn down, maybe they were only working to contain it, figuring that it wasn’t worth risking life to actually put the fire out, and they could let it burn out instead. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Anyway, later this evening, we went downtown to go to the book store, and there was this miasma of smoke over the whole downtown. Kindof makes you glad you don’t live in LA, and that we don’t use open woodfires and torches for heat and light. The smoke was odd, because it was relatively odorless. I mean, you could smell it, but it didn’t even smell as strong as a woodfire, and was nowhere near as bad as someone smoking near you. The other day, for example, we got home and the entire parking lot reeked of marijuana. Much much stronger than this. And, it didn’t smell like chemicals or plastic burning, just a wood smoke smell with a faint overtone of fireworks. Definitely quite interesting overall.
It was still going buring when we came home about 11. We don’t have fires like this very often around here.
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