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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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7 January 2004 - 11:33 pm
The excitement at apartment 12 tonight, besides the return of new episodes of The OC, was a fire. A pretty big fire. Somehow, a fire was started in one of the dumpsters behind our building. I noticed the light from the fire and michael looked out the window to see what it was. michael discovered the fire and called 911 while I moved my car, which had been parked only a few feet from the dumpster that now housed the fire. There's a fire station on Delmar, only a few blocks from apartment 12, and the fire personnel were here within minutes. They got the fire out pretty quickly and were much more thorough about hosing down the dumpster than I would have been.
After they left, michael and I investigated the contents of the dumpster. We couldn't really determine what caused the fire, but it looked like an abandoned dish washer had been burning, if such a thing is possible. We also noticed that the fire had been hot enough to melt the paint off the dumpster.
Anyway, here are a few pictures. A couple of those are the view from my bedroom window. The rest are outdoor shots. If I have some time tomorrow, I'll throw some captions on them, but I think they're pretty self-explanatory.
Posted by on 7 January 2004 at 11:35 PM
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I came back from Coffee Cartel and it did smell a little smoky -- no wonder there were all those parking spaces free by the dumpster!
Posted by Amy on 8 January 2004 - 8:39 AM
Wow, #6 looks like the mouth of Hell itself.
Posted by rkc on 9 January 2004 - 5:17 PM
My advice is always to have marshmellows on hand ot make s'mores in times like those.
Posted by rkc on 10 January 2004 - 6:40 PM
It was a bit too cold for me to stay out there very long, but it probably wouldn't have taken too long to make s'mores. I just wish I knew exactly how the fire had started.
Posted by david on 10 January 2004 - 10:33 PM