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So it would seem that yesterday somebody thought it would be a great idea to set all the cardboard bales outside the store, along the fence, on fire.
We didn't notice a thing. The 911 call came from a neighbor across the street who saw the smoke and flames.
After the fire department put the fire out, they had somebody go on the forklift and pull all the bales out so they could tear them apart and put out any smoldering that could be going on inside. Result: the entire driveway along the side of the store is covered in charred, blackened, soggy cardboard covered in fire-retardant foam.
Today, we had a contractor come in and clean up the mess with a front-end loader. They filled up a dump truck and a dumpster.
The fire left a bunch of scorch marks on the wall the bales were up against (not a wall of the store), and burned up the wooden slats in the fence above and melted the chain-link. I do hope they get that fixed soon. It's a pretty steep drop from the public sidewalk above, through the fence, and down to the asphalt below.
And I missed it. I miss all the exciting things that happen at work.
We didn't notice a thing. The 911 call came from a neighbor across the street who saw the smoke and flames.
After the fire department put the fire out, they had somebody go on the forklift and pull all the bales out so they could tear them apart and put out any smoldering that could be going on inside. Result: the entire driveway along the side of the store is covered in charred, blackened, soggy cardboard covered in fire-retardant foam.
Today, we had a contractor come in and clean up the mess with a front-end loader. They filled up a dump truck and a dumpster.
The fire left a bunch of scorch marks on the wall the bales were up against (not a wall of the store), and burned up the wooden slats in the fence above and melted the chain-link. I do hope they get that fixed soon. It's a pretty steep drop from the public sidewalk above, through the fence, and down to the asphalt below.
And I missed it. I miss all the exciting things that happen at work.
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