Tuesday, November 11, 2008

November Marks Anniversary of My First Office in SLO Burning Down





November 11th, 2002, I'm enjoying a couple of Corona's in Mexico "Dos mas, por favor" I say to the bartender...

Meanwhile, back in San Luis Obispo, the fire department is at the office building we had our office located at.

Railroad Square, a historic building in the Railroad District, is burning down, as a result of a homeless person who found an unlocked door, got in, then light a fire to warm up.

Man oh man, I forget how many offices and companies burned up that day, but I didn't know anything until I got back home and caught my voice mail messages, with 2 messages saying Welcome back, your office burned down while you were away...thankfully, although the computer was melted and damaged, I managed to recover the hardrive and was able to get the data recovered from it...whew. Many were not so lucky...they lost a lot of data! Hint, offsite Internet data storage...

What a mess...anyway, Fire Saftey Month is every month, and this fire is another example of what sprinklers could have done if they were in...

Happy Anniversary I guess...

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