thank you FDNY

Well, I'm down one exam and Greenpoint is down several warehouses. Waiting for the bus yesterday morning, I saw huge billowing clouds of smoke in the sky, coming from somewhere very near by. But instead of investigating what the NYT reports to be a 9-alarm fire (nobody died!), I had to get on the bus to go to school to take my exam.

Here's what I saw:


And here's what was happening (from the NYT article):




And while these valiant firefighters were hard at work, I was taking my exam and then a long lunch with my buddies.

Here's to the New York Fire Department.

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