Pete-

It burned down, of course!

Shouting "Macintyre" made no sense to me for years but I did happily accept the idea that it might have referred to some fire chief or other. I really don't lose much sleep over this question. "Macintyre" does rhyme with "fire" which is an equally fine rationale. At this point, why would we want to shout anything else?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble