E and B were off today for Veterans Day and I had just picked up E from her lunch date with P when we heard a couple emergency vehicles fly by the house. That's not so unusual, but they kept coming. I had the kids look out the window and they said they saw a couple fire engines, two ambulances and both marked and unmarked police cars speeding down the road. We decided to jump in the car and see what was going on and noticed the smoke the minute we stepped outside. Turns out, the local bakery's service garage was on fire when a propane tank exploded. Fortunately, I got back to the house and had the good sense to park on the apron instead of the street because the police soon shut down most of the side streets and a lot of cars were detoured to our street. E and B went walking over by the fire, talking to friends who were out and finding out more about what was going on. E got some decent pictures of the fire:
Some of the cable company's lines melted in the fire so our service went out. For us, that meant no phone, TV or cable. The kids were not happy. P lives close enough his power was shut off as a precaution until 10 p.m. At least we kept our electricity on. Of course all the Chicago news stations were there and since we had no cable service, we had to unplug the cable from the TV and were only getting Channels 5, 9 and 11 over the air. At least we got to see some of the news coverage. Here's the police officer in front of our house, blocking westbound traffic on our side street.
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