My neighborhood is burning down. A few weeks ago a 100 year old 50,000 sq ft office building and production area a block and a half away burned down when workers doing renovations ignited a fire.→[More:] It burned for almost 20 hours.
Just watched someone's wedding cake cutting picture get eaten by a large hydraulic claw and dumped in to a bin. What a depressing day. Even if you have insurance your whole life can be ripped apart so quickly.
...the fire was Saturday, the investigation Sunday and today, Monday they are tearing down the houses.
That seems oddly fast to get to demolition already. I would have thought the homeowners' insurance companies would have wanted to take a look first, before demo started. Unless the gas company already admitted fault or something.
Yeah, it turns out the demo is part of the investigation. They have been stripping layers off to get a better idea of how the fire spread.
They have pulled two units down completely and removed some of it.
On Tuesday I watched a group of investigators talking for a long time as they looked at a burnt box that looks like it may have been a microwave oven.
Today, Wednesday, a disposal company has put up a fence around everything.
One of the homes was occupied by a couple who own a book store on the other side of my block. They retired and moved here to be close to the store just about 7 months ago. Their old house flooded the night before closing during our third 'storm of the century' in five years. Now this.
They are hoping the homes will be replaced and they can stay in the area.