This is how the search lights looked to us from Central Colon.Image thanks to a fascinating site called skylighters.org
“At any rate, the city-wide fire would not touch the dwelling my family and I lived in at that corner of Third Street and Melendez Avenue in the historic City of Colon. As I wrote my memoirs describing the scenes, I remembered that our Papá-abuelo (granddad) came home during the fire relieved to find the family settled across the street from the home they knew. Then, he and some of his Westindian co-workers moved us all down the street where he felt we would be safer. Continue reading

