As I was updating this very website, trying to ponder what cute thing my students said to turn into some long winded post about teaching in Korea, and struggling to come up with some sort of lesson I learned from teaching someone from another culture (It’s what I do here), an event happened outside worth writing about.
I first heard the sirens when I was surfing the web. Instead of the doppler effect decreasing as the sirens started getting near, the sirens kept a nice steady whirl as they parked directly behind my apartment building complex. Somewhat concerned it might be a fire somewhere in my apartment complex, I grabbed my camera and my phone to share the news. Seems I answered my "What would you save in a fire?" discussion question activity without even trying. (Sorry wedding photos and Nintendo DS, it just wasn’t your day.)
I headed outside to see what the hell was going on. It turns out the the white sheds in this picture had caught on fire. I had a great vantage point to see what was going on. The fire fighters drove the water truck over the sidewalk, grabbed hoses for the fire engine, and had the fire out in about ten seconds of spraying. Then someone knocked in the door with some sort of tool, went inside, and then declared the emergency over. A crowd gathered near the subway exit and on the balcony of the apartment.
I dutifully started snapping off pictures from my vantage point, then once the fire was out and the majority of fire fighters had left, I went down to the scene of the fire to snap a few shots of the damage. There were still people seeing what had happened, and some fire fighters around trying to contact people about something, but it seemed like it was pretty much over for the night.
