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Old 03-16-2017, 10:04 PM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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Wow, maybe they'll be able to find something after all.

@edebrah: This is where it started. 2nd floor window. @NewRaleigh @WRAL https://twitter.com/edebrah/status/8...475590/photo/1
I'll have to look at the images I captured. From where I sit it it appeared to start more centrally to the building, closer to the parking structure. I caught it pretty early on. BTW - I hope @edebrah doesn't sign away all her rights. I worked in TV and it will be shown nation wide. Don't just give it away, because they will screw her...
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Old 03-16-2017, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Morrisville, NC
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I'll have to look at the images I captured. From where I sit it it appeared to start more centrally to the building, closer to the parking structure. I caught it pretty early on.
That picture shows a pretty aggressive fire so it wouldn't be surprising if it had actually been going for a bit by then.
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Old 03-16-2017, 10:09 PM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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That picture shows a pretty aggressive fire so it wouldn't be surprising if it had actually been going for a bit by then.
Yup. In a previous life I shot video for a company that trained firefighters, so I have a meager understanding of how these things evolve. I had to remind my wife of that when she was screaming at me to get back inside the condo... I never told her about the time I was shooting in a room that flashed over, usually that 'woof' sound is the last thing you'll ever hear in your life

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Old 03-16-2017, 10:18 PM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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https://twitter.com/NewRaleigh/statu...72040490143744

"Was told new rules for wood construction in DTR would spur development"
I even saw buildings being built like this in Downtown Los Angeles....crazy if you ask me.
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Old 03-16-2017, 10:24 PM
 
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I even saw buildings being built like this in Downtown Los Angeles....crazy if you ask me.
Didn't Downtown LA have a similar massive apartment building fire a couple years back?
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:31 PM
 
Location: Triangle area North Carolina
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Thank you take57 and stay safe.

There was a massive fire that leveled the Avalon Cove in Edgewater NJ in January 2015. This was just about a quarter mile from my house, and happened a few months before I moved here.

It was a wood-frame apartment building that had earlier gone up in flames as it was being built. (Similar stage to this one in Raleigh).

Thankfully, no one was killed, but several hundred people were homeless and lost everything. Many pets died. For many days there would be shell-shocked people, who'd lived at the Avalon, at the post office picking up their mail -- everyone let them jump the queue.

Apparently, the same company is building a similar wood structure on the same site. Apparently, we don't allow History to teach us anything.
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:53 PM
 
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Thank you take57 and stay safe.

There was a massive fire that leveled the Avalon Cove in Edgewater NJ in January 2015. This was just about a quarter mile from my house, and happened a few months before I moved here.

It was a wood-frame apartment building that had earlier gone up in flames as it was being built. (Similar stage to this one in Raleigh).

Thankfully, no one was killed, but several hundred people were homeless and lost everything. Many pets died. For many days there would be shell-shocked people, who'd lived at the Avalon, at the post office picking up their mail -- everyone let them jump the queue.

Apparently, the same company is building a similar wood structure on the same site. Apparently, we don't allow History to teach us anything.
Didn't John Sterling live there?

Seems history is irrelevant to developers.
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Old 03-17-2017, 03:31 AM
 
Location: Durm
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Holy crap. Take57, so glad you're ok.
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Old 03-17-2017, 05:20 AM
 
Location: under the beautiful Carolina blue
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It was just on the Today Show....as Take57 predicted.
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Old 03-17-2017, 06:01 AM
 
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nobody getting injured is good news and the most important thing.
anyone know...is the oyster bar ok ?
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