If you spend enough time commuting in the Bay Area, you will eventually see a burning vehicle. I think I've only seen one, and it was from a distance. Left some remarkable scorch marks on the stone sound wall along I-4, though!
I got close enough to a burning trailer home (in Arkansas, of course) to feel the heat billowing off of it. Gah. That put more fear of fire into me than anything else--it's hard to appreciate the sheer power of a fire till you get close to one. The erstwhile residents were standing around outside. We asked if they needed help, and they said they were OK and help was on the way.
I did come home on Halloween once to find that no, really, those fire trucks headed up my street? Going to my wooden Victorian deathtrap house. Trick or treat!
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I got close enough to a burning trailer home (in Arkansas, of course) to feel the heat billowing off of it. Gah. That put more fear of fire into me than anything else--it's hard to appreciate the sheer power of a fire till you get close to one. The erstwhile residents were standing around outside. We asked if they needed help, and they said they were OK and help was on the way.
I did come home on Halloween once to find that no, really, those fire trucks headed up my street? Going to my wooden Victorian deathtrap house. Trick or treat!