Main Street on Fire
 

My youngest daughter called this morning to tell us that Main Street in the small town I grew up in (she still lives in) is burning. This is a small community..... it will be devistating to them.

The stores are a restaurant, flower shop, a doctors office that is now turned into an apartment building, a True Value Hardware and a Pizza shop.

Please keep this town and people in your thoughts and prayers..... I just hope it was set and it was just an accident.

you can see it at the local website, they have a webcam
http://webcams.trcmaine.org/?cam=milo1

Oh, no. That's just horrible. :(

it is horrible, to sit here and watch it is so sad.

this is so sad ... hopefully it will be an accident and not arson ... :eek:

That's awful. I hope nobody got hurt/ gets hurt putting that out.

They'll figure out how that started I bet though.

That is so sad. :(

char what a drag I am sorry, hope no one was hurt,

do they have any idea what might of started it?

So sad to see, Char. I'm sorry. It's got to be devastating for those people who have lived there for so long.

my parents just called and I also read on a website that they think it was set intentionally - Mum said they found some evidence and have a suspect already.

that will hit the town hard.....

Ugh, it's just so senseless.:mad:

Oh that really bites Char. I looked at the images today and I can see the one building that was burned. Do you know how many building were affected yet?

Oh No!!! Sorry, Char.:(

The building on the end was a restaurant, next was a flower shop that closed last year, next was and apartment building where the family of 9 lived, then there was the Theater / Bowling Alley that has been closed for 30+ years - someone bought it 10 years ago and was going to fix it up but they ran out of money, then there was a True Value Hardware store and last was the House of Pizza.

Above the restaurant and Pizza house were apartments - looks like there is atleast 4 - 5 families who have lost their homes.

it is all sad...

It is so sad. My prayers are with them.

This really stinks Char.:( prayers going out to your family.

:hug::hug::hug:

so sorry char.
good people don't deserve that.
i hope the scoundrel pays.

my prayers for the town and it's people.

Fire's my biggest fear. I've had insurance wherever I lived (tenant's insurance is so inexpensive for peace of mind). If that fire was set, that's truly terrible. Accidents DO happen, but arson's a whole other ball game :(.

It seems I missed seeing the action as others stated, just a charred building by the looks of it now from the webcam. So sad :(.

Oh Char! This just sucks!

It reminds me of the fire in Lincoln. I am leaning towards arson...:mad:

Makes you wonder what they were thinking when they started the fire. Didn't they realize people lived there? People could get hurt or die?

Bad enough the property damage, the loss of things both replaceable and irreplaceable. But the probability of putting people out of their home and community, the possibility that lives would be lost - even if only those of pets.

It just makes me sick.

I have always been freaked about fire. There were a lot of them when I was really little, and our friend's baby brother died in a house fire. He lived for almost two weeks burned beyond recognition. It's hard to imagine, after that, anyone doing this on purpose.

There are some sick people out there.

So sorry Char A bit of the past is gone and that is what really
hurts. You can't relace that but thank god that no one was hurt. :(



Jappy :hug:

Arson.

A man and a woman were seen late that night going behind the buildings and coming out half an hour later. Of course the guy that saw them, in this VERY SMALL town, didn't call the police. :cool:

A family of nine with another baby on the way is now homeless and the building that they owned outright is gone.

This is the majority of the downtown area. The town has some grant applications in for revitalization but they didn't plan on spending it on rebuilding the town! :mad:

WHY? Why would someone do that? I hope they have old-fashioned do-it-yersilf justice up thar in them woods.:mad:

The news said that there was even a family with 5 kids and a pregnant mom living above their small business in one of the destroyed buildings. I hope they slap this jerk with attempted homicide charges.

http://bdnimages.sprintout.com/uploa...32692_9b70.jpg

I don't know why someone would do such a thing. Were they locals RW? I used to know a woman who's son was an arsonist. He was in and out of jail numerous times, probably still in there. I asked him one day why he started the fires and he said he didn't know, he just did. Whatever. This was back in the 70's, early 80's when Chicago was going crazy trying to find the arsonist setting fires. It was him. :mad:

That's so sad and tragic :(

So sad to hear this news! :( Hopefully there will be rebuilding?

I see that Brownsville is part of the TRC? My grammy went there for a visit last summer. I'll have to e-mail her and 'chat' a bit ;)

I pray noone was injured? :hug:

It is sad to see a part of the history of your hometown being destroyed. I can empathize. I grew up in a little town in Mississippi and most of the buildings have been there since the late 1800s. Lightening struck at one end of main street and it burned 3 stores before it was stopped.

Sad to think someone could do that on purpose.

It has been very sad for everyone in the area. I talked with my dad for an hour yesterday about the whole history..... I bought my first brand new bike at that True Value - I saved up the money from my newspaper route, I was 14, had never had a new bike always got the boys hand-me-downs. My dad drove me there and we picked it out and I rode it home!!!

Picked out my class ring at the jewlery store (where the restaurant was) and my doctor growning up was also in the complex. Plus when I was a little girl where the family of 9 lived was a hairdresser - used to get my hair cut as a little one right there above the doctors office.

So many memories!!! The buildings are gone but the memories will last forever!

Awwww!:hug::hug::hug::hug:

(am i the only one who can picture Yabbit riding her brand spankin' new bike home from the store?)

How cute, I had the same image but there were band-aids and Bactine in the background.:D

Then, in scene II, she went behind the bowling alley to smoke on the way home!

ROFLMAO - ok, you two are pretty darn close!! The bike the following summer I was going down over a steep hill not far from there and lost the brakes - ended up in the pucker brush head over tea kettle and a headache that lasted a week!!!

It wasn't a smoke that I used to do behind those buildings but it was a "cool" thing to walk around town with all the other teenagers so we would stash our alcohol behind the true value after they closed in the alley way! In the summer I would go to the local ice cream store and get a vanilla milkshake and add my Allen's (a Maine favorite right RW?) Coffee Brandy to it! After the ice cream store closed for the summer we would go to the local store and get a cup of coffee, dump out the coffee and make our Allen's Coffee Brandy in that with milk and walk around town drinking but "cops" would think we had a Milkshake or a Warm cup of coffee! :rolleyes:

wow, I was bad wasn't I???

*adding coffee brandy to shopping list*

Woo hoooo! I never thought of that one! I'm sooooo gonna have me some uh dat!

oh it is good! Godiva is good with van milkshake too - I tried it!!! :D oh and over vanilla ice cream like a sundae - yum yum!!!!

I wouldn't call that 'bad' LOL! That was 'growing up and experiencing life' ;).

We stashed our's in hollow trees in a park near the high school!

Drinking wasn't the only 'bad' thing I got myself into as a teen, but hey, I can say I never did half the stuff my friends did. :p

drinking wasn't my only thing either..... it is just what I hid behind in the alley way!! :D

Ok I'll come clean. I smoked a bit of that green stuff. :rolleyes:

In University, I smoked a LOT of that green stuff LOL!

Maybe if I had kept up with "mother nature" my MS would have stayed in remission? :p

Speaking of that, I just had the phantom smell of special brownies. :wink:

LMAO @ the Allen's Coffee Brandy! I started down in Mass on Old Mr. Boston coffee brandy. When I moved back here, I couldn't find it. Allen's was the only game in town! It took a LONG time to get used to that syrupy oversweetness. I learned to cut it with vodka and make white russians with coffee brandy instead of kalhua.

And yes, I used to stop at Mickey D's and get the XL milkshake or Dunkin's and get the Big One and I'd just mix the brandy in with whatever I bought!

I wonder if that's what kept me from having any symptoms at all until a "late" age :p

and...just mayyyybe...it's what is still keeping it at bay...:D

I would not doubt this in the least.

I think it would be interesting to find out the age of 'onset' or diagnosis of those who never touched 'mother's green nature' who now has MS, versus those who did and quit at a specific age and now have MS, versus those who continued to appreciate 'nature' and now have MS.

I will admit myself having a "few" green stuff in my day.....

We have an arsonist in a city close to us. His(her) first fire was in the building where I had my first job.

Unfortunately his next fire killed a young man. The arsonist has never been caught.

There haven't been any more in the last year but that person is still out there somewhere.

So, YB, I know what it feels like to lose part of your history.