Follow up to Strange Calls

This is some of the pictures of the fire that happened at my fiance' job, (read strange calls for further info). Our truck prior to him moving it, was sitting about 20 feet if that away from he little front door of the shop, the car right beside our truck (that was closest to the shop) had melted head lights, and their tires were melting, which gives you an idea of just how hot this fire got in a short amount of time. Let me know what you think, these pictures were taken with a cell phone so not the best but better than most, also the pictures go backwards, so to see the beginning of the fire just start at the bottom of this post and go up. Thanks again for visiting come back anytime

Willow Monroe

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In this picture you can see into the shop, if you look close you'll notice the front grill of a diseal, that was a complete truck, it's now sitting on its' frame, along with a work truck that had been purchased only a few months prior to this fire, both of which were total losses.
This is the outcome, looking at the damage that was done to the building, obviously a total loss

Notice in the picture the two guys walking, the one in the gray shirt will be putting water in his truck and blasting it onto the fire momentarily, this is when the fire trucks ran out of water, and asked the works to load their trucks and reverse the flow to blow back the water onto the fire.

This is pretty self-explanatory, its just the fire and rescue team

This is another angle to show just how bad the fire got, on the other side of that black diseal truck is tanks, tanks full of diseal. The idea at the moment was not just stop the fire, prevent it from reaching the diseal.

Here is another shot, you can see the third door with black soot around it, it's the office that was where the guy Tony who was watching the shop and first to discover the fire was at, prior to going into the shop room to see what was happening.

My fiance' first seen black smoke and thought it was a small amish store, that was until he seen the amish store wasn't on fire and then knew it was his job. This picture is of what he seen first when he arrived at the yard after moving our truck, if you look close, you can see theres a small door with fire in it, next to the garage door with lots of fire. Our truck was about 20 feet from that door prior to him moving it, the car beside it had melted head lights, and it's tires had began to melt as well.

Strange Calls...

I'm notorious for getting crazy calls at crazy hours of the day and night, for example I've received calls from the jail house from people I didn't know asking me to bail them out because they miss dialed the number and it was their one phone call. I've gotten calls from people telling me to be sure to pick up the milk for the baby, only for them to realize they've dialed the wrong number. I've had lots of strange calls, but the call I received lastnight takes the cake, read further to find out what I mean...

It's almost 5 am when my cell phone begins ringing (the ringtone tells me its my fiance') this is the conversation that took place


Me: Hello
B: I think we lost the truck
Me: What....
B: I think we just lost our truck
Me: What to do you mean you think we just lost the truck...are you high
B: My job's on fire
Me: What... your job's on fire, are you kidding me
B: No I'm serious, it's blazing their's cops here and fire fighters, hold on
(Officer's voice heard)
B: Hold on, I need to call you back, they need me to get this truck out of the way

(phone rings)

Me: Are you ok
B: Yeah, I moved our truck, it was hot as hell
Me: Are you gonna be able to drive or do I need to send someone to get you
B: No I'll drive home (loud explosion is heard)
Me: OMG What was that.... are you there
B: Shit, yeah it was chemicals blowing up, this place is a total loss, hold on
(Officer's voice heard)
B: I got to get off here, I'll call you before I leave to let you know I'm on my way home
Me: Wait, what do you got to do
B: They need us to fill our trucks up with water, the fire trucks are out


Ok so he makes it home, and has pictures on his phone, he was right the total place was a loss, and when I asked why the fire trucks had no water he just laughed and said he didn't know, but explained that they had to go over to a water station fill up their diesel trucks with fresh water then push some buttons anyways, it shoots the water back out of the tank and extinguishes the fire. My fiance' drives for an oil company, and according to what they have been told, the fire was caused by a diesel that had been in the workshop and the chemicals in the truck became over heated and caught fire. There were no lives lost, and everyone still has to go back to work.
So that's it, what's the craziest call you've ever gotten...

Willow Monroe