Neighborhood Fire .....

On June 22nd - just three days before my birthday ....  there were two helicopters hovering over our apartment and down the street ...  It took a little while to find out what was going on - but - eventually we found out that there was a major fire just down the street from us in another apartment complex.

Fire Destroys Bremerton Apartments

(pictures of the fire from Google, various sources - article pictures from Kitsap Sun) 

Kale got a job helping to do demolition on the building today (he started) and he said the rumor going around was that there was an older lady who had a heart attack while she had a lit cigarette

But I looked it up tonight.... and according to this article in Kitsap Sun .... it was a guy who admitted to throwing cigarette butts into a cardboard box on his patio.  I mean - this guy's choice to improperly dispose of something that would have taken him less than a minute to properly dispose of .... caused not only himself, but SEVERAL families to be homeless, to lose EVERYTHING.  What the fire didn't eat, the water and smoke damage did.

One fire fighter had to be treated at the hospital for heat exhaustion .... and everyone got out safely prior to the fire fighters getting there, but they did end up rescuing several animals (I think all or mostly cats) ....   Over a dozen people were displaced because of this, I think the highest I have seen was 16.

So I had asked Kale what it looked like.  (meaning what the building looked like) and he reaches in his pocket and hands me this.   Says....  "that's part of the roof that fell on top of me" ....  oye.