Showing posts with label New Haven Fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Haven Fire. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2015

Building Demolished on Orange and Chapel.

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Rooftop decay led to falling bricks on a Sunday afternoon in New Haven, prompting local officials to cordon off the area with caution tape, everything from Chapel on Church to State, and Orange at the intersection of Chapel to Crown. Officials were making their top priority the safety of pedestrians and spectators as an excavator made sample of the wreck.

Smashing parts of the building which would otherwise simply fall apart unexpectedly by the weight of their own gravity, the machinery took out a substantial amount of the upper floors of the building in the front, as is seen in the video. Economic Development director Matthew Nemerson was in attendance and commented that the building was already slated for demolition. Asked whether the accidental incident unintentionally expedited the process, he stated that it was an historic building and that it would have been better to have adequate documentation of the process.


The next morning, the building was entirely gone. All lanes flowing on Chapel and on Orange were entirely open.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Researching @NewHavenFire on Twitter

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That huge cloud you saw on the corner of Chapel and Church yesterday afternoon was part of a massive blaze just over the New Haven border in neighboring West Haven:
That video appeared as such from downtown:

Later that Evening...
Crossing the Quinnipiac River around dusk, drivers heading North on 95 would be seeing this on their left-hand side from Fair Haven Heights, later reported by other Twitter users as coming from Springside Ave: 




The @NewHavenFire twitter account maintained a close connection with the community of individuals on Twitter who communicated back and forth conversationally as the details of each event progressed. Faster than the news, local citizens with access to an under-rated app were privy to the best information, which assisted mostly with diverting traffic away from areas where the separate blazes were occurring. 

This morning, a rolling hazy fog cast shadows upon the buildings in the city downtown.