2610 Florence Workshop Fire

When I woke up (at 2PM) on July 3, 2002, I found that my workshop and all of my tools had been consumed by a fire which the Tucson Fire Department put out. Here is a tour of the charred wreckage.
dscn0685.jpg(683350 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 14:59:57,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.004 s  (1/262),  f/4.9 Large -- Medium

Schamali explores the workshop
dscn0686.jpg(722186 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:00:11,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.004 s  (1/224),  f/5.5 Large -- Medium

This used to be my table saw. Now the plastic is all melted and the rest is charred to unrecognizability. There are also other tools here.
dscn0687.jpg(679033 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:00:27,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f=12.7mm,  exptime=0.005 s  (1/185),  f/5.8 Large -- Medium

The big red toolbox that the 222 Catalina condomates Gary, Brad, and Johanna gave me for my birthday in July, 1995. Drill bits now extra tempered.
dscn0688.jpg(695548 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:01:03,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.020 s  (1/50),  f/2.5 Large -- Medium

This shelf held my power tools.
dscn0689.jpg(646917 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:01:31,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.021 s  (1/48),  f/2.8 Large -- Medium

This was the working area, though I'll admit it was covered in stuff at the time of the fire.
dscn0690.jpg(724981 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:01:38,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.020 s  (1/50),  f/2.5 Large -- Medium

Electric outlets look okay, fire didn't start from them.
dscn0696.jpg(707884 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:02:31,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,   exptime=0.012 s  (1/84),  f/3.1 Large -- Medium

The maul used for my Ditch Day stack in May, 1998. Note that under the hedge clippers, there, the floor is burned through. This helped the policemen convince me that the fire was started in the South end of the workshop from the grass.
dscn0694.jpg(648407 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:03:14,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.008 s  (1/120),  f/2.5 Large -- Medium

My poor drill! My mom gave that to me when I went off to college in 1994.
dscn0695.jpg(649221 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:03:29,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f=21.0mm,  exptime=0.008 s  (1/120),  f/3.8 Large -- Medium

Remains of the circular saw.
dscn0698.jpg(704315 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:04:32,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f=10.5mm,  exptime=0.018 s  (1/57),  f/2.7 Large -- Medium

How am I ever going to catalogue all this stuff . . .
dscn0701.jpg(724375 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:05:49,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.004 s  (1/272),  f/5.5 Large -- Medium

Charred lumber and a stool.
dscn0702.jpg(701063 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:06:11,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.004 s  (1/272),  f/6.2 Large -- Medium

Mom's hammerhead drill, used to drill lag bolts into concrete in 1998 while rebuilding the 5/6 wall and for other tough drilling jobs, too.
dscn0703.jpg(738393 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:07:08,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.003 s  (1/396),  f/6.2 Large -- Medium

All of this stubby, dead grassy area behind the fence on the easement is burned. My best current theory is that either a cigarette butt or a firework fragment ignited the grass, which then caught the grass next to the workshop and the South wall of the workshop on fire.
dscn0705.jpg(736995 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:08:29,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.008 s  (1/127),  f/3.5 Large -- Medium

The South wall of the workshop is totally toast, while the others remain mostly intact. More evidence of the fire spreading from the grass at the South end into the shed.
dscn0706.jpg(717569 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:08:52,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.007 s  (1/142),  f/4.4 Large -- Medium

Note solid East wall.
dscn0707.jpg(690379 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:09:59,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=N,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.014 s  (1/71),  f/3.1 Large -- Medium

Its all so post-apocalyptic!
dscn0710.jpg(700830 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:11:31,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f= 8.2mm,  exptime=0.017 s  (1/60),  f/2.5 Large -- Medium

Here's a shot of the area where the floor of the workshop burned through. This is on the South end, adjacent to the small grass patch that is now suspected to have caught the shed on fire.
dscn0712.jpg(705397 bytes) -- NIKON-E990,  2002:07:04 15:12:09,  [2048 x 1536],  fl=Y,  f=18.1mm,  exptime=0.008 s  (1/120),  f/3.5 Large -- Medium

Hole in the floor from a different angle.