Posts Tagged milwaukee fire
Patrick Cudahy fire
Posted by Alex in Alex's Thoughts on July 6, 2009
Patrick Cudahy, the butcher/meat packing plant the town of Cudahy is built upon, is currently burning to the ground and has been since 10 pm last night. My mom, my sister, and their cats are currently refugees and are in my house for awhile. The above picture is not the plant, that’s the school in front of my house, which is a little over 5 miles from the plant. That smoke above the school? That does belong to the plant. Yes, we can see the plumes of smoke all the way over here.
I don’t have any added info that people in Milwaukee don’t already know, but you can watch a live feed at Fox 6 Milwaukee’s website, along with a chatroom of other Milwaukee dwellers giving updates. The camera angle on the feed isn’t as good as the one they had earlier. The camera the had right next to the fire cut out.
Click the picture at the top of the post for a higher res image.
The roof, the roof
Posted by Alex in Alex's Thoughts on June 9, 2009
If you read my blog on a regular basis, you’ve probably seen the picture above. It’s a picture of my lawn from a few weeks ago, with a view of the back of my garage. It doesn’t look like that anymore. I would go as far as to say it looks completely different now. Let me show you…
Yeah. It’s torched. Completely and utterly. About three days ago, around 3 pm, the garage went up in flames. We have no idea what caused it, but the popular theory right now is that the fire was electrical. It seems to have started at the very top of the garage, which would imply wiring. You can’t see it very well from the angle above, but the very top of the garage is pitch black. The shingles you can see from this comparison angle are in surprisingly good shape. The other side of the garage is black, probably because that’s where a majority of the flammable material was. You know, things like a goddamn car. More details (and pictures) behind the link below.