FIRE!

[MCA]

Huge Jersey City blaze was set: officials
by Michaelangelo Conte
Sunday December 02, 2007, 5:30 PM

An arsonist was responsible for the fierce fire that destroyed a four-story building on Newark Avenue near the Grove Street PATH Station last week and spread to two adjacent buildings, Fire Director Armando Roman said today.

No additional details are available at this time and no arrests have been made, Roman said. The investigation being conducted by the Fire Department's Arson Unit is ongoing, he said.

The fire started in 141 Newark Avenue and spread to two smaller adjacent buildings.

[jcpeace]

Wow !!!  Too close for comfort...glad you're ok dude...
When is the movie coming out? 

after my re-adaptation of Downhill Racer   

[MCA]

From the JJ:



FIRE IS A WRECK OF ART
1 a.m. blaze dooms Newark Ave. building
Friday, November 30, 2007
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A four-alarm fire destroyed a four-story building on Newark Avenue in Jersey City early yesterday morning before spreading to two smaller buildings.

The blaze forced the demolition of 141 Newark Ave., the back of which was covered with a section of a landmark mural that stretches along a block of Christopher Columbus Drive west of Grove Street and the Grove Street PATH station area.

When firefighters responded to the 1:14 a.m. alarm, they found smoke billowing from the fourth-floor windows and by 2:04 a.m., a fourth alarm had been called, Fire Director Armando Roman said. Heavy smoke rising above the building was lit brightly orange by flames breaking through the roof.

Newark Avenue and Christopher Columbus Drive were a maze of hoses, fire trucks and red lights flashing though the smoke. Firefighters poured heavy streams of water onto the buildings using four tall ladder truck ladders.

The fire started in 141 Newark and the two adjacent buildings suffered less severe damage.

The structures contained some commercial properties, but there did not appear to be any residences in the buildings, Roman said, adding that there were no injuries.

The cause of the fire has not been determined.

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Mural is a monument to Jersey City history
Friday, November 30, 2007
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A landmark mural on Christopher Columbus Drive in Jersey City will be damaged by the demolition of a four-story building gutted by a fire early yesterday morning, officials say.

"It feels like the end of an era," said Leon Yost, who oversaw creation of the mural, which memorializes Jersey City's history. "It was painted in 1997 and 10 years later, the center of the mural will be gone."

The fire broke out in 141 Newark Ave., which runs through the block to Columbus Drive, where its rear wall makes up a portion of the mural, which spans 10 buildings. The image of a 50-foot Dixon pencil runs up the 60-foot-tall building and near its top the image of a section of the Pulaski Skyway cuts horizontally through clouds.

Yesterday afternoon, workers began demolishing the building because the fire rendered it structurally unsound. The fire spread to two smaller adjacent buildings and an engineer will determine if those four-story buildings are unsafe as well, Jersey City Police Lt. Edgar Martinez said.

The mural was completed on Oct. 31, 1997, after 21/2 years of planning, three months of wall preparation and three months of painting. It is 350 feet long and 350 gallons of paint were used to cover the 15,000-square-foot area, which has 105,000 bricks. It was executed by a team of 13 artists and prep crew members.

The mural includes images of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Barrow Mansion, the Pulaski Skyway, the Dixon pencil factory, an American Flag, the Colgate Clock, a ferry named Jersey City that operated between Exchange Place and Lower Manhattan, the Central Railroad of New Jersey ferry slip in Liberty State Park and purple violets, the state flower.

[rokroller]

i live very close to this bldg actually.....
first i hear sirens...no biggie
then i smelled smoke....kinda significant

then i looked up at my skylite and saw flying sparks!!!

so i hobble up to the roof and see flames, smoke and firemen....from that vantage point, it looked like the skinners loft bldg was the one...

so i limped downstairs and had the inevitable debate: run (hobble in my case)...or go down with the ship....i got ready for the former....went back up onto the roof as burning embers are raining down upon us....only to realize that it was the bldg across the street from skinners....

eventually fire was under control....then bedtime....

Wow !!!  Too close for comfort...glad you're ok dude...
When is the movie coming out? 

[jcpeace]

i live very close to this bldg actually.....
first i hear sirens...no biggie
then i smelled smoke....kinda significant

then i looked up at my skylite and saw flying sparks!!!

so i hobble up to the roof and see flames, smoke and firemen....from that vantage point, it looked like the skinners loft bldg was the one...

so i limped downstairs and had the inevitable debate: run (hobble in my case)...or go down with the ship....i got ready for the former....went back up onto the roof as burning embers are raining down upon us....only to realize that it was the bldg across the street from skinners....

eventually fire was under control....then bedtime....

[Bobblehead]

145 Newark Avenue, 125 years ago:

[Bobblehead]

Buildings are to be razed:

http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/index.ssf/2007/11/fire_damaged_buildings_to_be_r.html

So, how shitty of a building do you think will rise from that site? Will it be Grove PointE shitty? Or do you think it will exceed even that?

[Bobblehead]

Wow, building next door was for sale, too.

http://www.era.com/erabin/listing?Property=2005182

[Bobblehead]

Property is available for lease from Del Forno. 



http://www.delfornorealestate.com/pictures/assets/sales/commercial/141newark2/sales_commercial_141newark.html

[RB]

There were still firefighters there this morning around 8:30. Must have been a big fire.

[thebes]

Jersey Journal

4-alarm fire in Downtown Jersey City
by Michaelangelo Conte
Thursday November 29, 2007, 8:12 AM

A four-alarm fire ripped through a four-story building on Newark Avenue near the Grove Street PATH Station this morning and also spread to two smaller buildings.

When firefighters responded on the 1:14 a.m. alarm they found smoke billowing from ...

Read more here http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/index.ssf/2007/11/4alarm_fire_in_downtown_jersey.html

[DarkMoment]

I'm sure we all hope that the fire fighters remain safe and out of harms way in what looks to be a very dangerous fire.

I hope no one nearby that building is in danger and that people let the fire and police take care of business without endangering themselves or others.

[NON]

Major fire on Jersey City waterfront

by The Jersey Journal
Monday October 08, 2007, 10:46 PM







A major fire is lighting up the skies in Downtown Jersey City as the top floor of a building under construction at 77 Hudson St. burns.

The Jersey Journal's Michaelangelo Conte and photographer Reena Rose Sibayan are at the Greene and Sussex streets scene and will send in updates.

The project is the K. Hovnanian luxury condominiums that was in the news just weeks ago when it was learned that a record $6 million had been paid for a two-decker penthouse.

Channel 5 News is reporting that the Jersey City Fire Department has pulled all its people out of the building because the standpipe only goes up to the 15th floor and the fire is above that, on the 16th, 17th and 18th floors.

Falling debris, they said, also made it too dangerous for firefighters to be inside, so the 80 to 100 firefighters on the scene are fighting it from the outside.

The fire can be seen from Manhattan.

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