Blazing Inferno

Today's post is a bit of serendipity. When the shot just presents itself just outside your window. We saw the smoke, at first a big puff of black smoke followed by some white smoke. We think that must have been the building sprinklers kicking on in response to the first fire.  Then there was some more white smoke, then more white and black smoke. It would die down then get bigger. It when on this way for what seemed to be about a half hour. No sounds of fire trucks. The response seemed slow.  Then someone in our office remarked "this is boring, I want to see some flames". It was a joke as we all thought it would soon be over as it seemed to be getting put out. Well about ten minutes later things changed and there were flames jumping 60 feet in the air. Another old warehouse building bites the dust. I have photographed in this area of the city before and was planning on taking the large format back to this section to get some shots of the arch framed by these old buildings. Must have been quite the show for people passing through St. Louis on interstate 64 on on the Amtrak train that went right past this location at about the time the flames were really starting to shoot up.