Heirarchy of needs

I was planning to write some comments on what might be coming up at Lotusphere next week - but instead spent saturday afternoon anticipating this.
I was up on the roof with a garden hose - there were two houses between my back fence and the flames.

This house was in the next street.
Luckily the wind blew the flames past us and apart from 24 hours without electricity we are all fine.

Update: Images above are lost, but you can see more in the Wikipedia entry.