Photo by @andrewquilty for @BURNdiary. After six hours of chasing and waiting for a visa renewal today, my writer & friend Claire and I saw clouds of rusty, orange smoke billowing from behind some buildings a couple of blocks away. Fortunately it wasn’t the result of anything malicious – as is all-too-often the case in Kabul – but rather a toxic fire that had taken hold in a scrap-metal yard. No one was hurt and the firefighters had it under control in no time.