Explosion and FireFollow

I was sitting in my livingroom playing Black Ops. And I heard a loud Boom and my house shook. I dropped the controller and went to ask my brother if he heard it too. He was already heading out towards the living room to ask if I had heard/felt it. I walked outside to look around and noticed about 200 yards or so through the woods there is a fire on the other side of a house. It appears to be huge, from the glow of the fire is about twice as long as the house, and I can see flames licking up above the height of the roof top. The lights all go out in the house which has the fire in front of it. They were on when I first started looking, and as the fire appeared the spread the lights went out.

There I'm standing, wondering what to do. I just heard an explosion that was loud enough to shake my house and rattle the dishes in my cabinets. I see a fire that appears to be spreading, as I watch the red/orange glow is getting brighter and spreading. And all the lights in the house next to it have gone off.

So I decide to call the fire department. It's pitch black outside and there is a forest between me and the target, I'm not going to walk over to find out what is wrong. And I don't know the address/phone number of the house in question, never even talked to the people.

They say they'll send a truck out the make sure everything is alright. About 10 minutes after I'm done talking to the dispatcher, the fire appears to be settling down. 5 minutes later I hear sirens, and then the lights of TWO fire trucks driving down the road. I'm just thinking "Great, I called them out here, turns out it probably wasn't anything... and they sent TWO of the fire trucks..."

What would you have done?
(No, I haven't found out what the explosion was.)

Edited, Nov 13th 2010 11:57pm by TirithRR

When in doubt, calling emergency services is never a bad idea.

I know you were sarcastic, but I still rated you down.

The 3D systems in games are amazing now ain't they.


Even if the fire was dying down doesn't mean someone couldn't of been injured you did 100% the correct thing. I would of called the fire dept and went over to see if anyone needed help. Unless it was the house behind mine, that guy is a ****.

Edited, Nov 14th 2010 2:09am by Tyrrant

911 is never a bad idea. To bad the rocket they launched missed!

I once had someone call the fire department on me for a small controlled leaf burn in my front yard. Something which was entirely legal where I live. They had to dispatch a fire truck and crew (regulation, I guess or else the caller just said "Fire at this guy's house!") just to see that it was probably some **** driving down the road who felt a self-righteous conviction that you shouldn't burn leaves. Your tax dollars at work.

Anyway, if the fire department has to put up with retards like that, I wouldn't sweat calling them for what you think is a legitimate emergency.