Check Your Smoke Alarm-->

Last night I was talking with my girlfriend in to the late hours of the night (about 4am) and I noticed an orange glow on the wall in my living room. So, I glanced out the window and there was a fire high in the sky. A house was on fire. It was quite strange. First thing I did was call 911 and report it. The second thing I did was ran outside to see if everybody was okay. I happened to take my camera as well. I’m going to put together a video here in a couple days of the footage I filmed. The main issue I have with the fire was not that it happened but that it happened within a few hundred feet of a fire station. Seriously, this fire was burning for 30 minutes before the fire fighters even bothered to show up. For perspective look at the map to your left. The blue dot is the fire station and the red dot is where the fire station is. I would think there has to be a problem here. I’ve lived in this neighborhood over 3 years and when I first moved here I was told about the bustling mall that burned down a couple years before I got there. Guess where the shopping mall was? Yes, right across the road from the fire station. I checked my smoke alarm as soon as I got back to the house after watching this fire decimate the said house. I’m not even sure what the fire station is there for. The worst thing about this was there are two houses in very close proximity to the burning house that could have went up in flames. This neighborhood has a lot of houses that are close together. I don’t feel safe with that fire station in our neighborhood. I used to think it was awesome to have one so close but after two historical examples of property burning to the ground with terrible response time I question the security I feel because of this. Thanks Nashville Metro for putting the most useless fire station in Old Hickory, TN. I don’t feel safe at all because of it. Video will follow in a couple days.