THE ROADSIDE FIRE
About 2 or 3 years ago, me and my family were driving back from Florida, and in the middle of the journey, in, I think, West Virginia, we ran into some traffic. Typical, normal traffic on the highway. Very common. But when we saw the lights from fire engines and police cars, we were more eager to see what was going on up ahead. When we got closer we saw smoke rise up from the island in the middle of the road. There were people and fire trucks spraying water heavily on the almost-drenched-out stray roadside fire. We gasped in horror and in amazement from inside the minivan. It was more like the type of traffic that is like people slow down to look at the situation, or the police have dynamite sticks out to guard the work site, taking away a couple of lanes, increasing the traffic. Either or, the traffic was pretty bad. Once we got clear of all the traffic, we continued on the rest of our 15 hour journey back to Manhattan.
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