Massive Downtown Calumet Fire

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ICT Sledder

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Big fire in downtown Calumet tonight. Took out nearly the entire city block across the street from Copper World and north of the old Ford (?) dealer. The Copper World folks were live-streaming the whole event. Looks like it started in the old white, wood-framed Evergreen building, and has slowly consumed everything to the north to the next cross street. They seem to be keeping it from moving south, so far. Sure looked like the limitations of fire apparatus volume in the area plus small town water capacity weren’t doing the firefighters any favors. Only so much they can do.

So damn sad.
 
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old abe

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Very sad to see. We love the "old" time downtown buildings, and the history that comes from them!
 
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old abe

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We will never forget the town of Calumet, late 90's, year of the big snow. Tunnels leading into homes, and stores as I remember. Pray for those who lost a large part of their lives last night.
 
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frnash

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Oh Jeez, this reminds me of my years at Michigan Tech (1958-1964).
In those years there were a number of "Massive Downtown Fires" in Hancock and Houghton as well, destroying full city blocks in some cases.

The opulent old (click →) Wikipedia: Kerredge Theatre[SUP]1[/SUP] in Hancock, built in response to the construction two years earlier of (click →) Wikipedia: The Calumet Theatre in Calumet was lost in such a blaze as well. (Both theaters were very reminiscent of the old Ford Theater in Washington DC, where President Lincoln was killed.)

Of course such massive fires always seemed to occur in the peak of Winter as well. You certainly have to respect the firefighters, most of which are volunteers, that deal with that. (My 2nd cousin William O. (Onni) Nara was with the Bootjack Fire Department after years as a Fire Captain with the Detroit FD. He could tell some stories!)
[SUP]1[/SUP] The Kerredge Theatre:
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1fujifilm

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Alright M.P., where were you at last night..YOU GOT SOME SPLAINEN TO DO. We all know you weren't riding.

Bear
 
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1fujifilm said:
Alright M.P., where were you at last night..YOU GOT SOME SPLAINEN TO DO. We all know you weren't riding.

Bear
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Believe it or not, I was hanging an all-nighter running through $80,000 in online blackjack play to qualify for the bonus. Non-stop 10 hour session until daybreak and then I still wasn't finished.
 
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euphoric1

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Where was it in relation to Rocky's? That's really too bad , sad when that old architecture is lost, hopefully no lives lost or injuries. you can always rebuild but never the same.
 
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Tracker

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Believe it or not, I was hanging an all-nighter running through $80,000 in online blackjack play to qualify for the bonus. Non-stop 10 hour session until daybreak and then I still wasn't finished.
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I will take NOT BELIEVING IT ALEX for 10....your hilarious MP....80 grand online poker...then the alarm clock rang
 
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Tracker said:
I will take NOT BELIEVING IT ALEX for 10....your hilarious MP....80 grand online poker...then the alarm clock rang
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