(MN) Wild Fire

Last night my company sponsored the MN Wild hockey game. We had three locations throughout the Xcel Energy Center where we were demoing our new printer. David and I were working the table up on the Upper Level of the arena, right next to a concessions stand.

From the time we got there, we were plotting our attack on a huge bucket of popcorn and mega Diet Coke. We decided after the 1st intermission break and the Amazing Race ice event that led contestants up to our stand to collect a printed photo for the contest, we could execute our popcorn attack. However, the concessions stand had a different adgenda.

I smelled it first. Then I looked to the right. Smoke bellowing out of the concession stand. Now, I'm deathly afraid of fire, so when the smoke got thicker, I froze and sent David over to the stand with a camera to see what was going on. He came back a minute later, "The popcorn machine started on fire!" There was smoke everywhere and we couldn't breathe, but he did get some amazing photos:
... and as it turns out, we ended up printing more photos of the flamin' popcorn machine than we did of hockey fans!

PS. Yes, I am still deathly afraid of fire and no, this didn't help.