Fuck, that sucks. I'm always a little paranoid that my apartment will end up the same way, since it's not all that much newer and I'd guess all the technology I've got in here might be stressing the wiring a bit, in addition to the original-equipment gas furnaces. Keep us posted on the recovery efforts. Also, I'm curious as to what started it; the story said "near the chimney" but that could be a number of things: creosote, wiring, etc. I do find it a bit strange that there was another fire in the area the next morning. Also, if you rebuild there, lobby the county board of supervisors to put in some fire hydrants; in both fire stories I read it said that water had to be trucked in.
Tip for the rest of us: the picture on the story page is actually a 2000x1325 JPEG image shrunk down via HTML, meaning you can view it at full size (in Firefox, right-click and select "view image," not sure in IE at the moment). The picture carries a lot more visual weight at full size.