FIRE!

So last night I'm trying to get to sleep and I hear a semi in the ally. I am half asleep and it's about 12.30 so my brain says "wow it's kind of late for the brewery to be getting a delivery." so I open my eyes and there are red, white and blue lights flashing on my ceiling.. I think.. Maybe I should get up and see what is up.... And then I think.. Well maybe I don't want to see... And then I smell smoke. So I get up and look out the window and the dumpster that is behind the brewery is on FIRE!!!! Shooting flames up into the air... And the "semi" is a fire truck.... It took about 15 minutes to get the fire out... At one point it flared up again and all the firemen were not looking and I was like UMMMM it's still on fire guys.. But they did a good job putting it out... I don't know if someone set it.. Or if the brewery people were stupid and somehow set it... I'm just glad that someone called the fire department as my car was parked like 10 feet from the fire.. I still need to go outside and poke around a little.. But when I was watching last night nothing seemed like it was out of control. It took me about 5 minutes to realize I should probably close my window that had the box fan in it as it was sucking the smoke into my bedroom.....

But all is fine this morning and the dogs didn't even freak out about the noise in the ally.


UPDATE: So I talked to one of the bar tenders today. She said that the brewery had set it but not realized it until the fire department showed up. I guess what they do most nights is put the coals from the BBQ in a metal bucket to cool off and then throw them away the next day... Someone had the bright idea to just throw them away before they were cool last night.. So it started the dumpster on fire.. Lesson learned.... I hope....