Destruction
Here we go again… this is my entry for Graham’s March Photography Challenge! The theme for March is “destruction” (lucky me, it could have been “spring” and I would have been fucked… still a few meters of snow on the ground here!) and I thought this picture would illustrate it nicely.
This fire was 2008’s first fire in Ottawa.
Shortly after midnight, on New Year’s Eve, we drove home from downtown and saw a big cloud of smoke in our street. We parked and went to have a look. A house in the neighborhood was burning pretty quickly despite the subzero temperatures and the snowy roads/backyards.
The family living here escaped just fine and no one was injured. Apparently, at 12:03 they went into their living room and saw their Christmas tree on fire. The fire went up very quickly and they just run away. The neighbors called 911. It took several hours to extinguish the fire completely.
We went back to see the house the next day and it was totally destroyed. What a start for 2008!
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Hi Zhu,
This sort of thing happening during the Christmas Season is such a huge dampener. It ruins the memories of a Christmas celebration , replaced by the horrors of a catastrophe.
Good thing no one was hurt. How would you feel if you won? Would you be happy?
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That is a terrible way to start the year, but at least no one was hurt. The picture is absolutely brilliant in spite of the subject.
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lovely. who knew you could find art in destruction :p
Amazing picture! Good thing that everyone is ok, that way the picture isn’t so sad as it could be
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@Tint — I found that Portuguese was pretty hard… I can speak Spanish but the sounds in Portuguese was new to me and quite weird at first. My vocabulary is about two words anyway!
@Art — I made sure of it before taking pics…
@Graham — I know, it was bad… but the family was quite positive with the whole thing, they had insurance and no one was hurt, so…
@shionge — Last time I heard, they were about to rebuild on the same land.
@Linguist-in-Waiting — I took the picture just for the sake of it but I was quite pleased with the results!
@Froggywoogie — There are quite a lot of fires here, houses are made of paper it seems… the whole thing burnt so quickly, we barely saw it happening!
@kyh — Yeah, no luck on that one… but as I said, fortunately, they had a good insurance policy at least.
@Tanya — Thank you!
@zunnur — It was so quick, I think it burnt down whithin a few minutes. Crazy.
@Shantanu — I know…
@durano lawayan — I hope they will put this tragic event behind them.
@Theresa — Thank you! As I said, no way I would have taken the picture if there would have been human loses.
@ammaro —
I tried my best!
@Aiglee — I wouldn’t have taken the picture otherwise, for sure!