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on fire when I got to work this morning!
We had some pretty bad storms through the night with some awesome light shows. This morning about 6:45 or 6:50, lightning struck the building (built in the 1930s) and all of the wood in the attic started burning. By the time I got in at 7am, there was smoke pouring out the dormers in the attic. About 7:30, we thought the fire was under control, and the firemen let us in the building to recover computers and historical memorabilia. We managed to get everything out that we needed to within 30 minutes when the firemen kicked us out of the building again because the fire flared up again, and now flames were shooting out the dormers rather than "just" smoke!
By the end of the day, the fire was out and had completely destroyed 3 or 4 offices on the third floor (I work on the first floor). Water and smoke destroyed a massive, once beautiful conference room, and water and smoke damage was evident though out the building. I just finished taking a shower and my clothes are on their second round through the washer. the fire department did an awesome job confining the fire to one section of the building.
Good news: no one was hurt or killed; we salvaged a lot of things with historical value with minimum smoke and water damage; we will recover and the mission will go on (I am military).
Bad news: damage is going to be high when the final tally is calculated; several people on base are going to lose office space in order for all of the functions of that building to keep operating.
Now if I could just get the smell of smoke out of my nose!
We had some pretty bad storms through the night with some awesome light shows. This morning about 6:45 or 6:50, lightning struck the building (built in the 1930s) and all of the wood in the attic started burning. By the time I got in at 7am, there was smoke pouring out the dormers in the attic. About 7:30, we thought the fire was under control, and the firemen let us in the building to recover computers and historical memorabilia. We managed to get everything out that we needed to within 30 minutes when the firemen kicked us out of the building again because the fire flared up again, and now flames were shooting out the dormers rather than "just" smoke!
By the end of the day, the fire was out and had completely destroyed 3 or 4 offices on the third floor (I work on the first floor). Water and smoke destroyed a massive, once beautiful conference room, and water and smoke damage was evident though out the building. I just finished taking a shower and my clothes are on their second round through the washer. the fire department did an awesome job confining the fire to one section of the building.
Good news: no one was hurt or killed; we salvaged a lot of things with historical value with minimum smoke and water damage; we will recover and the mission will go on (I am military).
Bad news: damage is going to be high when the final tally is calculated; several people on base are going to lose office space in order for all of the functions of that building to keep operating.
Now if I could just get the smell of smoke out of my nose!
What a day you had! How fortunate to hear that no one was injured and that historical and important items were rescued....but still...... how scary....
I'm glad no one was hurt. I really hate to see historic things destroyed. 
