But it's a disaster all the same. It was a fire at our area's best pizza restaurant. A bad fire. Bottom line is, we won't be able to enjoy pizzas there for quite some time to come. That qualifies as a disaster in my books.
It started about 1 p.m., and soon the fire trucks were screaming past our house. To the east, a thick cloud of smoke was rising. I went to the office, grabbed my camera bag and then headed for where all the lights were flashing and the main highway was blocked off.
It's called the Happy Italian's Roma Cafe (usually abbreviated to "the Happy I"). When I arrived, here's how it looked, complete with flames on the roof (on the left) ...
It apparently started in the kitchen area--we don't have the official word on the cause yet. Here's the view from another angle, with firemen on the roof ...
The main action was on the backside of the building--down the alley from the last shot. Here's what was happening there ...
In that shot, the firefighters were retreating down the ladder because the flames were getting too close. That's where the kitchen is. Rather, was.
They set up again a little further away and climbed up again. Because they're firemen, and that's what they do. Here's the scene a few minutes later ...
And here is one of the firemen, with foam/water falling down all around him as he kept his nozzle pointed through a window at the fire in the kitchen ...
The firemen were mostly finished in about two hours. The roof never fell, but there was a lot of fire damage in the kitchen area and extensive smoke damage throughout the place.
And the bottom line is that when my older son gets up here late this week--he's arriving on Thursday--we're going to have to find another place to go for pizza.
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