had drama in tacoma. while watching fireworks on puget sound from a friend's cliffside house 70 ft. above the water, an errant illegal firework launched by the nextdoor neighbor started a brush fire that threatened my friend's home.
we tried feebly to put it out with two garden hoses, no sucess. this was almost 10 minutes of smoky hell while embers were falling all over, until the puget sound fireboat came over and proceeded to douse the whole cliffside with saltwater. fireboat 1, fire 0.
fire is bad.
