Fire
There was a big brush fire yesterday on the side of a hill in Bernal Heights, the neighborhood next to mine. It's also just a few hundred feet from where Biella used to live when she first came to San Francisco.
Praveen and I happened to be having brunch in the neighborhood when we saw the fire trucks (and the plumes of smoke). The firefighters graciously allowed us and other curious San Franciscans to watch from the top of the hill as they put out the whole thing and saved the surrounding homes. I still smell like smoke.
It was amazingly difficult to extinguish the fire from a distance due to winds that would blow the water from the fire hoses off the hill and away from the fire. Finally crews of firefighters had to climb down the hill within a few feet of the burning patches to spray them at close range.
