Early this morning my partner and I responded to a call for a fire on the front lawn at a row house. When we arrived there was a small fire at the base of a cedar tree. We grabbed the pump tank to extinguish the fire but it flared up when the water hit it. On closer inspection I noticed broken glass and and a bottle with the neck broken and a partially burnt rag attached. Suspecting that someone had thrown a Molotov Cocktail at the home I called for the police. Seconds later a ball off flame erupted several meters behind us, we could feel the heat. It turns out that a mentally duranged women with a grievence against the police had set up an ambush.
LESSONS LEARNED: Always wear your full turn out gear no matter how innocent a situation first appears. We live in a small community and have never run into this type of situation before. We were just lucky that it was a near miss.
