Small fire on Forrest Street - By N.L. Belardes

Seems I’ve stumbled onto a lot of fires lately. There was the fire on Highway 58 and the Christmas Tree fire. Then there was the aftermath of the H Street fire right around the corner from where I live, and within 24 hours a fire on Bakersfield's Forrest Street.

I wasn’t too concerned about seeing fire engines pull onto Forrest Street Monday night. There are always ambulance and fire trucks zooming past, and often stopping at a certain apartment complex. You never know about these things. It could be some little old lady having panic attacks and calling 911 every two days for her bunions. You just never know.

So when I saw the fire engines, I peeked outside, and thought, Oh here we go again. I did want to stretch my legs. So I walked outside. Still not really caring about what was going on down the street I walked in the general direction of the flashing lights.

I thought I saw barbecue flames. Just then I realized the fire department was en route to put out some flames that were away from the apartments. Before I could even get close enough they had the fire out. You only have seconds to cover events sometimes. No biggie. I got to stretch my legs and no one was hurt and no property damages. Just another weird event on Forrest Street.

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The fire is just a plume of smoke

This entry was posted by N.L. Belardes, on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. You can leave your response.