The Night that Never Was…
Let me set the scene: it was a chilly windy Friday night and a toss salad was looking yummy when we heard the sound. It is not abnormal to hear sirens drive by our apartment but tonight they didn’t speed by. Instead, they multiplied to 4! We looked out our windows and saw the firemen looking up but at what??? Was the building on fire…we have our assignments: Daniel the Mac and me the wedding album, tiara and Pinky. I called down to the front desk and they said no alarms were going off in our building and didn’t know why they were here. We ran to the large window next to the elevator and there it was: A FIRE! The 5 story walk up next door’s roof was burning! It sounds worse than it really was because the building is abandoned and about to be torn down for a new hotel. But why were the water hoses?? The swarm of fireman were on the street with their flashlights but still confused where the fire was burning! I called back downstairs to let the doorman know it was on top of the building and not very big. Then moments later came fireman up through the building with extinguishers to put it out. The best part (other than us being safe) was the long ladder that brought more fireman to attack the blaze from above. Thanks to all the FDNY out there that responded!