It really livens up your day...

To come home to a buch of fire trucks in front of your home. Not just one or two, which could be a non-event or an EMS roll, but 3+ fire trucks with hoses deployed. Not only were there fire trucks, but they blocked my usual route home. Nerve-wracking.

So I did a little creative navigating, got back to Casa Ted without even having to off-road (which is not advisable in a Toyota EconoBox Special, even if you did get the wheel upgrade), and noticed a distinct lack of smoke and/or fire damage. Insert preliminary sigh of relief here.

So next I wandered over to talk to an Official Onlooker. For those of you who don't know, an Official Onlooker (or member of the Pocket Pool Patrol) is a person who acts in an official capacity (usually some flavor of supervisor) for an emergency services-connected organization. This guy was actually from the power company (I think). But he had a "SAFETY" traffic vest and a hard hat and was standing around not doing anything, which is the impotant part.

So I posed as an official from a local condominium and asked him what happened. He told me that a garbage truck had emptied one of the local Dumpsters (why is that always capitalized?) and then caught fire.

Ahh, I love the smell of burning garbage in the morning. Smells like...cafeteria food.

Fortunately, no one was injured and no significant property damage occurred. But that was my Interesting Event for the day.