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July 13, 2010 | Central Parking Garage West Entrance

This is interesting: right as I was going to cross out for lunch (after my TA flatly refused to explain to one person about why it is ungrammatical in Chinese to say "as I was waking up, I fell asleep") when two fire trucks raced up, responding to an automatic fire alarm (source: seattle.gov). The bigger one, seen in the picture, turned into the parking garage and stopped, apparently realizing that it's not going to fit. A service van (left) came up, briefly talked to the engine driver, and they left the scene of their own encounter.

I wonder how they fight fires inside, say, tunnels or parking garages. Especially when a fire engine can't drive in directly. Also, those fires seem more dangerous.