O What a Day Part 2

Who knew what a day today would be! I’m sitting at work, head phones on, cranking away when my officemate comments about the sirens. Now, I work downtown and we get our fair share of sirens going by. Usually when I’m on an international call with a client of course. So I’ve just learned to phase them out. She and several others in the office head out to investigate and that leaves me to hold down the fort. I open up the window and look out and low and behold the fire trucks have stopped right on my door step. There’s even a rather handsome young firefighter on the ladder truck making his way up towards me it appears.

It was funny watching the traffic from my bird eye point of view. I’m at a classic Boston intersection and several trucks had already arrived blocking traffic on some of the streets. On another side street, there was a line of cars trying to figure out where to go as the only options were up a one way street the wrong way as the other streets are blocked by firetrucks. But there’s a truck behind them trying to get through and the street is narrow. 

This is no little event that can be ignored. There’s tons of trucks and people congregating on the sidewalk. They’re all looking at something below my window but I can’t tell what. I’m curious, so decide to lock up the office and head down to see what’s going on. It appears there was a fire in the basement of the building next to ours. I’m in the building on the corner and the burrito restaurant seems to have had a fire inside. They’re ripping up the metal delivery doors in the sidewalk and there’s a dozen firefighters swarmed around the whole. It was crazy how many fire departments showed up. I think there was something like 7 different big fire trucks. Two ladders were raised.

There were two cars that were stuck in the middle of the firetrucks. They looked so awkward there. It was weird as no traffic could get by, but since it was a fairly contained fire, pedestrians were crossing through the middle of everything. I crossed over to the opposite of the street – just barely, the wind was so fierce I could almost not walk against it. Needless to say it was not unpleasent watching all the fire fighters – there must have been at least 30 or more. And there is just something about a cute guy in the fireman uniform. After awhile the wind got to us and my colleagues and I decided to make it over to the other corner and enjoy the scene from the comfort of a table inside over a drink.  The last picture is taken from our window.  The sun was out, there was excitement in the air, the view was quite pleasant and all while enjoying a mid-afternoon drink. Who could ask for anything more?! So now it’s 3 pm and I still have an event in Cambridge to check out tonight so who knows what the rest of the day will be like. I can only wonder, for now.