Well, you all may remember about four months ago, a small fire next door and my being evacuated by the lads and lassie of Engine 33, Ladder 9, the fire house from the song I wrote about September 11th... Well, it happened again last night. I was watching TV, rather knackered, and the picture went off during a commercial, causing me to fall asleep for about two minutes. I came too, and realized something was not quite right, half the electric in the apartment was off. None of the circuit breakers were tripped... I kept trying to find a tripped breaker, as the refrigerator was also off ... then I noticed flashing lights out the window, so I got dressed and wandered down to find the hall filled with smoke and my old pals of Engine 33, Ladder 9, Engine 28 Ladder 11, Engine 3 and it's ladder as well as a few others. As usual, Anne of Ladder 9 was in the lead, she was down in my basement, under the theater, audience members flooding out of the building, seems a surge in the power on our block knocked out power in about half the buildings, and set fire to an air-conditioning motor in the theater. As usual they stopped a small fire from becoming a big one.
Funny thing though, my first thought was, Geeze, Genie and I didn't clean the house, and Lou, and Anne and PJ are going to think we really live like this! That was more concern than the fire! Well, all is well and the lights back on ... and once again,
Ner' pass a fire house without a brief pause
and thank all the heroes who work on those engines...
each day they risk all in humanities cause...
Cheers Larry