Like many evenings when the windows are open in the spring or summer, street noise infiltrates our apartment with near illegal intention but this evening, the fire engines kept getting louder and seemingly stopping outside our building… with one look, they were circling the building across the street and it was then I noticed the smoke billowing both out of the 2nd floor and the chimney stack.
Firefighters had to saw through the chains at the French Connection store and haul their hoses and gear through the SOHO fashion store, most likely tromping and smashing expensive fashions all over the floors on the way up. It seemed someone’s fireplace fire had gotten out of control, however, it wasn’t cold enough to have one so who knows how this think went up. It looks like most of the people in this building will be Fcuked for some time….
