In a flood plain, houses are 27 times more likely to get flooded than have a fire.

Houses are just burned down that nobody could ever get to. Instantly, there were 15 or 20 houses on fire at same time and no way to get around to all of them.

It is believed the fire started because a candle was knocked over by shack dwellers who were partying.

It's a nightmare fighting a fire in a high-rise. We have enough problems with fires from generators at houses.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant

It doesn't look that bad from the outside. But inside, the water damage is incredible. The fire department was just awesome. After the fire was out, they went in and pulled down family pictures and moved wood furniture to less wet places and put tarps over it.