House on fire
This afternoon we watched a controlled burn of a house in our neighbourhood. Rather than demolish the house, the owners gave it to the local fire department to use for training exercises with the final burn taking place today.
The first image was taken at 1.25pm, a few minutes after the firefighters had torched the centre of the house, the second shot, just ten minutes later shows how quickly our wooden tinder box houses can become totally engulfed. Tomorrow we will be checking all our smoke alarms and fire extinguishers!
