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huge fire..downtown..?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by thejav, Mar 25, 2014.

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  1. DonnyMost

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    #41 DonnyMost, Mar 25, 2014
  2. ima_drummer2k

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    View from my office:

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    #42 ima_drummer2k, Mar 25, 2014
  3. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    So many homeless yuppies (they'll have to wait for another one)
     
    #43 REEKO_HTOWN, Mar 25, 2014
  4. TheresTheDagger

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    The fire made national news. Just saw an update on Fox. 5 alarm and 200 firefighters. Whoa that's a big fire.
     
    #44 TheresTheDagger, Mar 25, 2014
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    If that was my office location my day would be done.
     
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    Holy crap!

    You commute all the way from Kingwood?!
     
    #46 Haymitch, Mar 25, 2014
  7. ima_drummer2k

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    The building is just a bunch of plywood and sheet rock. I don't think they had anything electrical even hooked up yet. But it went up FAST. It was an inferno 10 minutes after someone saw smoke.

    I can't see how this fire was started by anything other than arson. That's my (totally uneducated) opinion.
     
    #47 ima_drummer2k, Mar 25, 2014
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    KTRK ABC 13 has this photo of the construction worker trying to put it out (the fire, not his PP) on the 5th floor.

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    :eek:
     
    #49 SwoLy-D, Mar 25, 2014
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    Uhhhh.... How did he get out?
     
    #50 smr6, Mar 25, 2014
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    Bowl is ready.
     
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  12. smr6

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    Nvm saw the fire ladder on the other side of the picture. So they probably brought a ladder over to get him down.
     
    #52 smr6, Mar 25, 2014
  13. HeWhoIsLunchbox

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    I live 1/2 a mile down W. Dallas from this place. My dad saw the smoke from his office downtown at around 12:30 and called me thinking it could've been my complex. Since then my phone has been blowing up.

    That complex is completely torched. Really hope that any constructions workers that were on the job today made it out alright.

    Arson seems like a legit possibility. There were a number of people that were pissed about how this complex was built directly next to a cemetery.
     
    #53 HeWhoIsLunchbox, Mar 25, 2014
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    wtf? are we supposed to leave cemetaries on developmental islands?


    crazy ppl..

    but this is probably insurance fraud lol
     
    #54 GanjaRocket, Mar 25, 2014
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    well the headstones are really close to the property..

    still, if people were rational.. it wouldn't matter. but I digress
     
    #55 GanjaRocket, Mar 25, 2014
  16. ima_drummer2k

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    My phone has been blowing up with people thinking it was the building I work in with that evil company logo on top and this was all retaliation for the events of 2008....
     
    #56 ima_drummer2k, Mar 25, 2014
  17. rimrocker

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    Seems to me the people who are concerned about cemeteries aren't the kind of people who turn to arson. Developers with money problems, on the other hand...
     
    #57 rimrocker, Mar 25, 2014
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    isn't half of Houston built on some ancient burial ground?
     
    #58 macalu, Mar 25, 2014
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    crazy day at the office...sounds like everyone got out okay.
     
    #59 mrdave543, Mar 25, 2014
  20. SwoLy-D

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    Beans? :eek:
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