We had some pretty big excitement for our neighborhood this weekend. Friday night the apartment building 2 buildings down started on fire. About 8:45pm we heard police sirens in our neighborhood. Now police sirens aren't that rare where we live so I though nothing of it until they stopped VERY close by. I looked up the street and saw a cop car blocking the street. So I went out the front door to see what was going on and saw flames lining the roof of that apartment building. Since the fire department wasnt' there yet people were running up to the police department and giving them their fire extinguishers to help fight the fire. There is something about a fire or tragedy like that that you have to watch. This was no exception. If you add up all the people that I have seen in the neighborhood since we moved, the number would still be shy of the number of people out there on Friday night. There were fire departments from Waunakee, Deforest and Marshall responding along with the Sun Prairie department.
The fire seemed to start in the closet that contains the air conditioning/heating unit and spread into the apartment and the attic. It was very obvious that the fire was in the attic as the siding started to peel off the building and smoke was billowing out of the attic vents. We watched the fire departments saw into the attic and put the fire out. By 10 the fire was out and the crowd had thinned. My mom was spending the night so she took Jackson out for a walk to watch what was going on. We think that he ruined the news coverage that Channel 3 provided because he was doing his growl/bark at the people standing there. Including the news crew.
There still isn't a report of what happened yet. There were some early pictures in the Sun Prairie paper this week. I will have to buy one next week to see what happened.
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