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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1067
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:11 pm: |    |
Here are some pics of the R.O.F.D. at work today:
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Dodgemain
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Username: Dodgemain
Post Number: 216
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:15 pm: | |
What burned? |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1069
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:37 pm: | |
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Fishtoes2000
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Username: Fishtoes2000
Post Number: 467
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:37 pm: | |
That first photo looks like Main St. looking north between Hudson and Harrison -- a block north of Holiday Market. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1070
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:49 pm: | |
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Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1071
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:57 pm: | |
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Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1072
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:58 pm: | |
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Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1073
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:01 pm: | |
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Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1074
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:02 pm: | |
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Bussey
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Username: Bussey
Post Number: 646
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:38 pm: | |
Great photos but WTF burned down? |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 4162
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:53 pm: | |
Is that the office furniture place that was being rehabbed or is it Ye Olde Smokey Bar? |
Alley
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Username: Alley
Post Number: 92
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 10:54 pm: | |
please please not ye olde tap room!@! |
Smogboy
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Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 7355
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 11:08 pm: | |
Is it the B&R Collision shop? |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 2009
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 11:20 pm: | |
apparently bulletmagnet has no clue what burned down, even though he was there |
Smogboy
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Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 7357
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 11:28 pm: | |
Nor do the photographs give enough hints as to what was burned down as well. |
Alley
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Username: Alley
Post Number: 93
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 12:03 am: | |
FOILED! c'mon, what the heck was it?? |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1517
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 1:32 am: | |
lol...The Where's Waldo of the day |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1076
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 5:00 am: | |
I think it was a fire...but I dunno... |
Mozeewink
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Username: Mozeewink
Post Number: 34
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 8:47 am: | |
um...okaaayy... |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5748
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 8:51 am: | |
Looks more like an explosion. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11888
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 8:55 am: | |
Will you ALL just relax on this full moon?!
I'm not going to suffer you stirred up fools well. |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1472
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 8:57 am: | |
That's right near where they were going to tear a building down...wonder if that was it (a controlled explosion). |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 5750
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 9:00 am: | |
Uh oh... I think Gannon's starting to grow fur, and his canines are getting longer... |
Detroitteacher
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Username: Detroitteacher
Post Number: 1237
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 9:08 am: | |
That wasn't a fire. Looks like a tear down and the FF are there to water down the debris so as to cut down on the dust and debris flying and to avoid a fire. In the one picture there is a little Bobcat type construction vehicle. They wouldn't have that in there during an active fire. Also all of the debris seems to be in a nice pile. That doesn't happen during a fire.
(Message edited by detroitteacher on March 21, 2008) |
Oldredfordette
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Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 4163
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 9:28 am: | |
It's nothing on Main Street, I think DT is correct. It must be off one of the streets - there are a lot of little factories and buildings down there. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11892
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 9:40 am: | |
JL,
I'm just letting y'all know what is stirring YOU up...I don't get discombobulated at lunar tugs and pulls and twists any longer.
heh
Traffic was fucking crazy yesterday...today I'm walking.
Cheers! |
Rjlj
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Username: Rjlj
Post Number: 479
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 10:13 am: | |
Correct, a tear down. New loft development with a semi-reuse of an existing building. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1077
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 2:09 pm: | |
Okay guys, I'll let you know what it was.
Although all of this speculation is much more fun than what this really was. As I was traveling home yesterday afternoon, i spied a helicopter orbiting over a column of black smoke. I had to change directions, and I found myself heading down Main street in Royal Oak. Those of you who said this occurred at a building rehab (or tear down), are correct. I'm not sure how the fire started, but the R.O.F.D. was called to the scene and I was there with my omnipresent camera. I wish it could have been more than this, but at least I got a laugh out of the post. This building is located directly behind the Martinizing cleaners on Main and Hudson. |
Pffft
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Username: Pffft
Post Number: 1473
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 2:30 pm: | |
It's an older building somebody tried to rehab, then they ran out of money halfway through. The city condemned it and ordered it demolished.
Why do people with no money buy buildings? Or houses ... |
Viziondetroit
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Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1520
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 2:32 pm: | |
To sit on them until someone wants to buy it from them at a profit. |
Fnnm400
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Username: Fnnm400
Post Number: 10
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 11:49 am: | |
Normally they are trying to make money. But for those who haven't done this or haven't been in business before it looks fairly easy. But for those with no experince some under estimate the cities and regulations of rehabbing and go broke.
While I am a believer in inspections and rules, I am sick of fees and too damn many rules which run the average person broke. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1087
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 12:07 pm: | |
Hummm...I'm sorry if you are one of those who got into this project (or one like it), only to get "burned", Fnnm400.
I had a pal who built out a building in RO and had a hell of a time with all the regulations and such. But in the end it was worth it, and the building is now safe and making (a little) money. |
Fnnm400
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Username: Fnnm400
Post Number: 11
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 1:11 pm: | |
Nope, not into developing properties. I just know the politics and problems with dealing in this type stuff. If you go in underfunded you are really screwed. For the person that has guts but not emough money government can be rough on them.
If you look around many projects like this fail due to this very problem. |
Maddog
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Username: Maddog
Post Number: 19
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 6:32 pm: | |
Just FYI... It was a building under construction and it WAS a fire. it was not a standby for dust and debris wetdown. |
Spacemonkey
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Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 304
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:00 pm: | |
I'm sorry to hear that Chosen Books burned down. |
Danny
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Username: Danny
Post Number: 7227
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 2:48 pm: | |
Oh! that building is at the " little blighted " section near Downtown Royal Oak. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1097
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 4:54 pm: | |
Do you have any more info on that fire, Spacemonkey. I had no idea Chosen Books burned (I live under a rock, ask wifey).
Danny, that "little blighted section" near downtown RO is but a speck, if it is to be compared to some of the other surrounding communities (with exceptions, of course). I am sure Detroit would love to have Royal Oak's blight.
PS Admin: Would future posts of this nature (fires) be better suited posted under the “Firehouses” mega thread? |
Ladyinabag
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Username: Ladyinabag
Post Number: 504
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 6:06 pm: | |
I tried The Daily Tribune archives and I couldn't find it in there. The Daily Tribune is located in Royal Oak. Maybe if someone called the R.O. Fire Dept....? |
Wilus1mj
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Username: Wilus1mj
Post Number: 255
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 8:37 pm: | |
I walked by and it must have been a warehouse directly behind Martinizing Cleaners. The building has loading ramps still around the lot. About half of the cement structure is still standing. I'm not sure what the project is/was? If no News coverage was found--i'm sure it wasn't a total loss. |