Was surfing the net at home when Holly alerted me to the fact there was a huge fire across the street and subway station. We live in the Osakako area of Osaka, translates to Osaka Port. I was surprised that the fire didn't spread out much further than this one building, it was literally 4 mins before the fire dept showed up and had things under control. Love the levels of efficiency here.
Reminds me of how things are done in the third world. In Tripoli, Libya when I was about 10 I was sitting in my house playing NES, and then all of the sudden there was a massive explosion outside, the windows were blown in and the house shook incredibly. Me and Afif ran outside to see what had happened and we saw everyone in the neighborhood was out too, everyone looking to the sky for signs of fighter jets or bombers, as the US had bombed Libya just a few years before and the tensions were always high in those times. The one of our German neighbors pointed to what was a mushroom cloud, and shouted "Das ist wo der flughafen ist". Which translates to " That is were the airport is"
Later we find out that the the Fuel Depot at the airport caught on fire, the fire trucks showed up with no water in the their tanks, and then when they went back to their station to fill up they noticed that now it was on fire too. And then the whole place blew. Taking out most of the airport with it.
The explosion was gargantuan, it blew our windows in and we lived about 10 Km from the airport. Good old Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Civil Defense, protectors of the people, the shield against Zion. Useless, utterly useless. At first of course it was the Israelis who got blamed at first, but then it looked bad for the government that the great Libyan Air force couldn't have stopped Israeli jets so it was revealed it was an sabotage caused by the Jews. when the real news came out later it turned out it was an accident.
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