Special Report: Pink burns

UPDATE: Here’s the story on the fire we ran today.

So I was standing in a parking lot in Hoquiam this afternoon when I got an urgent call from one of my editors.

“We’ve got a fire with visible flames,” he said. An apartment building on the hill in Aberdeen.

“Alright, I’ve got my camera. I can head right over,” I replied. “Where is it exactly?”

He said it was on 9th Street — across from a park.

Weird, I thought. I live in an apartment building on 9th Street across from a park.

Oh crap.

So it turns out my apartment building caught fire today. No one was injured, but a couple units were destroyed. I haven’t been inside, but I believe mine is fine.

We’ll have a story on it tomorrow. I stood around and nervously took pictures while fellow reporter Rachel talked to all my neighbors in the pissing rain. I suppose it could have been worse.

Anyway, it was very strange. More later. Here are some pictures: