This morning at 12:30 AM I heard sirens, but they stopped making noise and I could see the lights through my window. I got up and saw a fire in the alley behind our house. The neighbors 3 and 4 houses away lost their garages, and at least 3 houses have fire damage.
Fortunately the fire fighters were able to get the fires out before any homes were seriously affected. I hope the local tax situation can be resolved soon, because if it does not, almost half of our firefighters are out of a job. (FYI, Indiana restructured property taxes because they were 'unfair'* leaving most cities with multimillion dollar budget shortfalls).
* The taxes were unfair, but to replace an unfair system with on that doesn't cover basic safety costs is not much of an improvement.
2 comments:
Is it weird that there seem to an oddly large number of fires around you lately?
According to the fire department(s), the frequency of fires is not higher than normal. The distribution, i.e., within two blocks of my house, is a bit uncomfortable. A guy in my ward in the fire department suspects a recently released arsonist, who preferred this area prior to going to jail 15 years ago, but 15 years is about all they get.
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