We came home to some excitement - there were fire trucks on our street, lined up all the way down to a street 2 down from us:

It turned out that a house two streets over (maybe a quarter mile from here) caught fire. The family living there have a handicapped child, so they were putting in a large addition with an elevator - the speculation is that there was some kind of electrical fault due to that. The good news? Apparently, they aren't living there during the renovation. Which was fortunate, as the fire destroyed a lot. I'll see if I can get photos tomorrow during the day - it's hard to see much in these:

That's smoke rising from the top, and at the very top, siding peeled away by the flames. It's not obvious in the first pic above, but the rook has multiple holes. While I was watching, they were punching out windows - I asked, and that was to ventilate the house - lots and lots of smoke. It's a good thing nothing else was hapening in Howard County this evening - we must have had 20 trucks and at least 50 firemen here.

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