At about 4pm this afternoon, I left my office building to make a call on my cellphone. I crossed the road and stood on the pavement in front of a semi-constructed building. After a few minutes I was chatting away, when I suddenly realised that I was standing in a cloud of black smoke and that burning debris was falling all around me!
Looking behind me, I saw that flames were belching out of the half-finished building! I legged it up the road, dodging burning and molten plastic that was dropping from the skies above me, trying not to inhale any of the black smoke.
The fire brigade turned up a couple of minutes later, and it took them a little while to put the fire out - they were still there an hour and a half later.
I have a burnt scalp (not bad, just a bit sore) from where some burning plastic hit me, my eyes are stinging like mad, and I feel as if I've just smoked 3 packs of cigarettes within the last 5 minutes.
Thankfully no-one was hurt, all the builders got out OK. The thing that gets me is that I didn't even notice the fire straight away, yet I was standing within a few feet of the roaring inferno [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]
0/10 for powers of observation
