HOUSE ON FIRE IN LINDELL, SAINT LOUIS

As I was sitting in my room using my computer in St. Louis. A friend of mine pointed out to one of the old buildings in Lindell Ave, Central West End apartment. It was caught on fire. Smoke was coming out of its chimney. We were just a few buildings away. First, the 197-unit apartment building was just burning inside with intense smoke escaping from its chimney on the roof. There were no sign of any firefighters. They could have been on their way since there were people watching the smoke from the road. After about half an hour, the fire started rising in the air burning down the chimney and taking over the roof. Inside my room, a friend of mine was constantly checking the news and updating us about what was being known. She was saying that no one got hurt, which was good. After about fifteen minutes, I still could not see any firefighters, and the fire went on burning from one roof top to another one. After about an hour firefighters came, the building was evacuated, and started pouring down the water on top of the roof. The whole roof top was gone by Wednesday and I could see that the firefighters were still watering the remaining fire in the morning. By Wednesday evening the building was surrounded by news reporters, visitors and gazers who were making news, or, shocked, or even amazed by the incident. One of them could have been me.