what do you see?

Saw a fire yesterday, somewhere in the Susukino area when we were walking back from town. Suddenly lots of fire engines started appearing, converging on a certain point, so of course we followed and found people staring, and smoke pouring out of the 2nd floor of a big building, about a 500 yen bar. Then we could see massive flames inside. They quickly got it under control in the usual way (...water) but then they started raising those massive ladders, one was incredibly high, I think just to get an aerial view to see if the fire had spread at all.