[lindsay ormerod]

Saw the fire brigade lobbing debris out of a house on Washington Street at about 7:30 this morning, hope no-one was injured. We seem to be getting a lot of house fires lately, wonder if it's people leaving windows open for extra ventilation and forgetting about candles, joss sticks and such? I am always very cautious having had experience of how nasty these fires can be but it's so easy to forget about a candle.