Do I smell smoke?

I thought I smelled smoke one morning - and not just the smoke of the ubiquitous cherry bombs and firecrackers which every boy over the age of 3 seems to have in endless supply - but smoke as in "hmmm, is something burning?" Once I deduced nothing in my place was on fire, I went to the balcony where I spotted lots of smoke coming from a business on the ground floor about two doors down from me. A police officer was on the scene first and joined dozens of five and six-year old boys in observing the smoke, and then came the fire trucks. One was a regular ladder truck, and the other was this....

I just love it. It looks like a toy truck. I feel like I time warped to the past to watch a fire being put out. I never did figure out where the fire was exactly although I think it was in the hairdressers. It smelled for days afterwards but other than that and ankle deep water where the firemen pointed the hose, there were no other consequences.