Feuer frei?

So here I am in my apartment, preparing my stuff for the journey home to Åminne tomorrow (albeit a little late in the evening, but then again I am nocturnal) and finally taking out the trash. (I don't want it to smell funny when I get back after tha vacation, though the kitchen does already smell a little sweet, but nothing to worry about.)

When I walk outside there's this humming noise, like some kind of machine, and I'm wondering what the heck it is. As I make the corner and head towards the small recycling house, I see it.
Two fire engines, an ambulance and a police car. Just across the street. 00.20. I guess there was a fire earlier, because the situation seems calm. A moment later I discover the source of the humming noise, which has now grown to an annoying noise, a little bit like a vacuum cleaner. All the outer doors to the apartment buildings are wide open, along with some windows in the stairwells, and I can see to an open basement door, which is where it all comes from. There must be an airconditioner for venting out all the smoke in there. Most people are standing around the corner of the building, so my guess is that there was a fire in the basement, closest to the backside.
Man, that's gotta be one cold stairwell, was my first thought. I was then thinking of asking someone what had happened, but I eventually have up on that. It was cold outside and many were about to leave anyway. I can hear about it tomorrow.

Hmmm, it's been half an hour now, I wonder if they're still venting the basement? Hehe, sucks to be trying to sleep there then tonight...

G'night!