we caught the fire (but nobody escaped)

So, early this morning the metal scrapyard next to my warehouse caught fire. It came within 20 metres of said warehouse and you could see the smoke for miiiiiiiiiiles.

The whole place was closed and the site was lousy with security men sending warehouse workers home this morning. It was a shame as I had trailers and trailers of emergency stock coming in to be crossdocked at 10am today. I'd spent a considerable amount of time and charm persuading the supplier, the haulier, the warehouse, the DCs and Site Traffic to allow this crossdock to happen, and then at 8.10am I had to phone the supplier and tell them to tell their driver to turn around and take it back up the motorway to another warehouse where I had secured some precious palletspaces for them - but that they were NOT to try and tip anything apart from my order ON PAIN OF DEATH.

Apart from that, today has been a managable week.