Fire

Yesterday there was a huge five alarm fire in West Philly just a couple of blocks away from my apartment. When I got out of work I could see the smoke from Spring Garden station. It was a huge billowing dark black smoke. When I got off the subway at 40th street, so I could stop that the bank, the billowing cloud of smoke was taking up a huge amount of the sky.Then I started the walk home from 40th street to 46th. The billowing smoke started to look more grey against the darkening night, but it did not decrease in size. And while I was walking I started to see the light of the flames against the dark night sky. Finally I could see the fire trucks and police cars. A ton of traffic was being directed down my street away from the fire. There were helicopters hovering up in the air. No one was hurt, but the building went up really quickly, so there are a bunch of homeless families and its suppose to snow about 7 inches tonight.

I wrote a really interesting poem in my mind while I was walking home (when of course I did not have any paper handy). I tried to write it down when I got home and I'll try to post it tonight for you all.