h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I awoke about 1 am to the sound of sirens, sirens and more sirens. And then I noticed a sort of irregular popping noise. And more sirens. Sirens for a good twenty minutes ripping down the main street a block away.

After a bit of looking about in news sources . . .


'Firefighters are battling a two-alarm blaze at the Bethany Senior Citizens Home just off Whyte Avenue at 83rd Avenue and 99 Street.'

http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/story.aspx?ID=1467957


That's just a block away!

What a nightmare for the seniors living there.

It seems one person has died:

http://www.inews880.com/Channels/Reg/LocalNews/Story.aspx?ID=1467972&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

'Police are treating the seniors' centre as a crime scene while they investigate how the fire spread from a burning vehicle in the parking lot to a suite on the third floor. The cause of the vehicle fire hasn't been determined.'

A crime scene? Arson? Someone deliberately set fire to a nursing home?

TRiG.

Well, at this point it seems that someone set fire to a car.

Beside a Seniors' Residence.

At one am.




Nothing bad could come of that.

now it seems they blew up a car


at 1 am

beside a seniors residence.



'Two firefighters were slightly hurt during the fire which began around midnight after a loud explosion.

A burned-out car was discovered in the parking lot of the seniors residence in what firefighters are treating as a separate fire'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/08/02/edmonton-senior-bethany-fire.html

Two dead (both residents of the complex) now and police 'are not looking for suspects'.

It sounds like a tragic domestic story.