[The citizens of the Quartier Marchand of Port-à-Lucine were awakened at dawn by the sound of a series of large explosions coming from the Red Vardo Traders' Service Building. The blasts were so strong that they could even be heard in the other districts of Port-à-Lucine. Quickly, curious and frightened citizens gathered around the burning building as help organized. A party of gendarmes and concerned citizens helped put out the fire as the the Captain of the Red Vardo Traders in Port-à-Lucine, Elias, was seen conversing with the gendarme officer Juste Marceaux. The rescue party worked all day to extinguish the flames and were eventually able to clear a path inside the building and save it from flames. In a scene reminiscent of the nights preceding the Revolution, gendarmes were seen manning barricades in the Quartier Marchand after dusk, to protect the building from vandalism and looters. Once the situation was fully under control, the gendarmes and the courageous citizens who helped them dismantled the barricades and the gendarmes returned to the Gendarmerie. For now, the identity of the vandals is unknown...some, among the populace, fear that it may be the first sign of another Revolution or perhaps the work of Les Ordures.]