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Los Angeles Apartments Are On Fire... Literally
A massive downtown Los Angeles fire - engulfing numerous apartment buildings - has blocked the northbound 101 Freeway and looks set to make the usual disastrous traffic in LA even more unbearable today. As The LA Times reports, more than 250 firefighters battled the blaze at an apartment tower under construction in the 900 block of Fremont Avenue. The images are simply stunning...
Luve Feed (via NBC):
Incredible...
Two freeways were closed as firefighters battled a large blaze in downtown Los Angeles early Monday, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
"It's a large building, about a block long. The whole building is a total loss. The fire did spread into two neighboring buildings," said David Ortiz, a spokesman for the fire department. "The fire was going across the freeway."
Ortiz said there were no reports of injuries or fatalities in the fire, which consumed an apartment building that was still under construction.
He said more than 250 firefighters fought the fire, which was reported after 1:20 a.m. PST, and which was under control by 4:30 a.m. PST.
The fire was under control but not extinguished, and freeways would be opened soon, Ortiz said.
The fire spread to two neighboring buildings, including an office building on North Figueroa Street, where several stories were damaged by fire and water.
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Stunning images...
Portions of 101&110 fwys closed due to large apartment fire; 200+ firefighters on scene http://t.co/cLyMCp7TrQ pic.twitter.com/zEzGloupXt
— KTLA (@KTLA) December 8, 2014
Massive LA Fire Consumes Three Towers, Shuts Down Freeways http://t.co/wLv2pudyOS pic.twitter.com/KKpncroAqv
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) December 8, 2014
The fire in Downtown LA looks really bad! Hope everyone there's alright, there's over 250 firefighters there... - pic.twitter.com/qIFEVAcuFP
— Oliver Sellors (@prophAcid) December 8, 2014
Smoke plume from big LA fire looked like a storm on weather radar from Orange County pic.twitter.com/vk3Wr6Ug5l
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) December 8, 2014
The huge fire in downtown LA last night... Hope everyone's alright out there! pic.twitter.com/3qWyrk0xaq
— Just Becca (@_Becca32) December 8, 2014
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Perhaps - like Blackstone believes - the apartment market is really going up in smoke... and a fire-sale was the best option
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what insurance comapny got "stuck" with it?
Exactly
When the project costs made it clear that this "investment" would have a negative return for many years to come...
...Jewish Lightning.
Krugman just jizzed his pants over the destruction.....
Edit, best me to it!
F'n bullish!!!!!!
We torched some folks!!!
Can they pin it on some black folks who were protesting other black folks getting killed by the police?
Did all of those structures collapse at free fall speed?
Naw, they didn't have time to plant the thermo nanite or blame it on the russians. Missed opportunity.
Now they know how the people in Syria feel. Did Israel bomb LA too?
pods
"Pull it."
--Larry Silverstein, who had a couple billion dollars in insurance on WTC buildings (via MANY duplicative policies) despite his investment to that fateful date of 11 million USD.
Anyone else thinking "top" in CA RE? I mean, this sure looks like an easy way out of a very bad investment if one had such an obligation and insight.
Regards,
Cooter
Geez, all that Section 8 housing down the tubes.
Hey these units are still rentable as "open plan" designs, man.
Did Larry Silverstein own this building?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOW5eljyjms
Did Larry Silverstein own this building?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOW5eljyjms
Fuck off.
Have a bit of a man crush on old Larry do we. Mind you, anyone who can profit to the tune of billions off the destruction of three buildings and death of 3000 people is pretty sexy from a purely capatalistic point of view. Have to give the man credit for his pure profit driven motivation.
I have only one thing more to say: "PULL IT"
Me? No. I told Frofl to fuck off for linking a stupid youtube video that has fuck all to do with shit. Larry "Pull it" siverstein is a fucking cunt. And he can fuck off too.
Hahah, OK, point taken.
250 firefighters.....and it burns to the ground. Why go to the expense? So ofter you see 'firefighters' at fires and no fire gets put out. Do they go to the obama fire training school?
The fiefighters are protecting other exposures...they know you can't put a fire out like that until it expends its energy.
L.I.P.s
Life Safety
Incident Stabilization
Property Conservation
Always in that order when arriving at an Incident.
1. Logged in to ZH
2. Found this story
3. Searched for every instance of the phrase: "Pull it" or "Silverstein" or "Thermite"
4. +1 for each.
5. Logged out of ZH
in the mddle of a drought they pour water on a lost cause.
"We don't need no water, let the mother fucker burn"
Is that a Rancid line on ZH??? Nice.
actually I was thinking of this one; Bloodhound Gang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmUC0OysoU
Those of us that have been drowning from the recent rains aren't thinking 'drought' anymore. With 50% of yearly (July-June) rainfall already here and another 30% due later this week we are gerring a bit damp. The reservoirs are filling nicely. Not complaiing though.
We still have a long way to go. Aquifers are still in need of recharge.
Exactly. What an abject waste of resources in water, and manpower.
A well engineered fire suppression system would be far more cost effective, and mitigate the need for firefighters to point their guns at the tax livestock.
well engineered fire suppression systems are always valuable when you're 100% sure you're going to have a fire. But they're way to expensive for the 99.99% of people who don't torch their assets.
"Naw, they didn't have time to plant the thermo nanite or blame it on the russians. Missed opportunity." Or time to line up any patsy Turks to hijack an airliner and fly it into the building (ie South Stream Pipeline canceled deal). Sloppy planning.
Did all of those structures collapse at free fall speed?
Not rapidly. Only steel reinforced concrete structures do that after 90 or so minutes. That material is much more dangerous and needs to be banned.
It takes some time before the wood burns to ash.
Wood is much safer. It is the Environmentalist's fault for 9-11 as they restricted the harvesting of trees. Fucking tree huggers.
You mean in the 21st century, the building codes department approved a building that covered an entire block downtown to be built of wood?
A truly priceless comment, thank you for this, I will use it from time to time.
+1000. Applause.
I love asking people if jet fuel burns through steel columns, why doesn't the airline industry have to replace METAL engines after every flight. :|
Yep, Inconel, A36, no real difference other than a little nickel.
People must think you are so smart... Until you actually say something.
Little penguin, being mean doesn't make your right, espically when you mail in a half wrong comment with nothing else. Here let me teach you something child.
Inconel is mainly used in the combustion chamber. While present in turbine blades, bleed air is primarliy used to provide a boundary layer to mitigate heat transfer. Even low pressure turbines are a combination of lower grade alloys. The fire would have to burn so hot to accomplish the official story of collapse even inconel would not pass the test. But thats not the point, and you lost the right to an intelligent discussion.
Its really a point made to lay people about the absurdey of the official story.
Next you will be arguing about how the 911 commission was decent work of science.
"Can they pin it on some black folks who were protesting other black folks getting killed by the police?"
No. I suspect lot's of people would rather it blamed on "illegals."
Obviously, all those adjacent high rises will need to be "pulled".
lmao
But the steel frames are still standing, and did not collapse into the basement.
.... but they will ... any second now ... pretty soon they'll all collapse together and the building will come straight down ... I think I can see one melting ...
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't need no water let the motherfuker burn. Burn motherfucker, burn.
911 was an inside job.
I think that was Krugman in the video, sounded like he was having an orgasm
...Jewish Lightning.???
+1000
Those usury boyz think of everything!
Oy gevalt!!!
mazel tov!
Molotov!
Call the fire department! This one's out of control!
That's racist, and everyone knows if you need to "cleans" an area you call a Greek.
9/11 wasn't a greek fault for cleanning the block....
Did Larry Silverstein own this building?
Don't be absurd, profit margins way too low "pulling" this building. Anyway, even if he could make a few billion off this one I suspect he wouldn't enjoy the profits as much if thousands of people didn't burn to death.
You know that is a little much. I didn't know many Jewish people when I was growing up but I did know one and his life wasn't easy. (This is an honest to God, true story) Yeah, they had a big house but his dad was facing financial problems and right at the same time their house burned down! Talk about bad luck. Although, I think they collected insurance so they made out okay, thank goodness.
what a coincidence, i knew someone like that, had a large building but couldn't do anything with it as protected.
somehow the empty building disconnected from electricity and gas burned down one night.
rumour says there was a guy seen running away with a blowtorch
rumours were wrong, he wasn't running just making his way out of the rain into nextdoor
some say someone drove him to the airport next morning.
but what do i know about it?
garbage in, garbage out.
this is all I got-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxoD9zWY9Rg
"This is GDP positive." ~ Paul Krugman Ph.Derp......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtzQRkrj0U
As interpretted by Zorg in the movie "The Fifth Element" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1W0F0yObg
Move along.... no fraud here ....... move along folks.......
Yep...that looks pretty hot for chinese drywall...
This is why it's important to have regular, controlled apartment building burns to prevent the accumulation of too much dry tinder, leading to even larger conflagrations like this.
Good fires prevent bad fires...
Holy shit! Someone needs to tell China. Talk about conflagrations.
I think you're thinking about fluctuations. Different thing, but the point is well taken.
Hey,
I was riffing on China's Ghost Cities and your idea of burning buildings to clear out the dead underbrush.
That reminds me of the racist joke in which a Chinese-American guy goes to the bank everyday to exchange the RMB and Yen he takes in at his place of business for good ol' American dollars. One day he comes in to exchange his currency and the teller gives him less money than he had expected. He asks, "Why less money today than yesterday?" The teller responds, "Fluctuations." The Chinese guy is horribly offended and screams, "Oh yeah? Well flux you white people too!"
You kind of have to say it out loud, and even then it isn't that funny.
That was my first thought too. I'm watching to see if this sort of thing becomes a contrarian indicator in the realestate market.
Check your insurance policy – damage caused by Riots isn’t covered for serfs.
Jewish Lighting! Coming to a market near YOU.
Probably owned by Larry siverstein or one of his many relations
No worries. When the time comes and there are too many fires for the insuraunce cos. to pay out, the'll get the cattle to do another bailout, a la AIG.
I am surprised the entire building hasn't collapsed.
I mean, it took a lot less than that for World Trade Center Building #7 to go down, right?
In what way, exactly, would they be "figuratively" on fire?
I thought these bldgs would collapse quikly and neatly like bldg 7 did on 9-11? California must have higher codes than NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWorDrTC0Qg
Hence layered programmes, and reinsurance. But,in short, whoever wrote the project CAR policy, and for the third party damage, the CGL.
Krugman just got a broken window woody.
Sounds painful.
Lightnig stikes again!
But holy shit, what was it made of??
Gasoline soaked wood?
It's not what kind of materials it was made of, it's what kind of lightning struck it. There is a very old, very racist term that comes to mind called "Jewish lightning". Somehow, some way, somebody's getting paid on this.
There is a very well-known, very Jewish, very funny LA talk radio guy who is probably calling it that at this very moment.
It's just new illegal immigrant housing passing the burn test.
Nothing Happened...
Illegals live in garages converted to substandard bunk houses.
Bullish for the LA economy? Krugman?
By "under control" do they mean "smoldering pile of rubble"?
Yeah, I guess that's what it means. When all the fuel has been consumed it is then "under control".
So... When does it collapse ?
Since 2008, the term 'collapse' is not used in the US as nothing ever collapses. The building will deflate, cuz deflation is always bad.
The real question is going to be if whether the majority of americans, having watched this building burn down to it's steel skeleton, can ever possibly come to the conclusion that building 7 couldn't have collapsed at free fall speed into it's own footprint from some random smoldering fires? I doubt it. That might take someone a couple of minutes of clear, rational, out of the box thinking that might cause them to lose consciousness.
Shhhh....dont wake the 'sheeps'; we dont want a stampede of stupid.
Its a sad realization. Americans choose to be so stupid or are they drugged? Its this decades long, apathetic display by the vast majority of Americans, that explodes the concept of democracy.
Well, obviously it wasn't jet fuel burning these apartments. Jet fuel burns several times hotter than anything else. Duh.
Kerosine. Your propane bbq grill burns hotter than jet fuel, which is basicly kerosine. If you turn on the grill and walk away, have a beer, forget about it, when you come back, did your steel grill melt / burn? No
More Silverstein asbesto-infected properties?
Strange, they don't seem to be collapsing at free-fall speed in their own footprint. I guess the WTC 7 collapse was just a fluke.
Bullish!
Detroit?
Yawn. Wake me when Darien or 5th Ave look like that.
banks need to convert their assets into cash
thanks mr insurance policy
Can't get tenents you mayswell get the insurance.
They be 'remodeling' those buildings. Wait 'till the action moves to Irvine and Laguna Niguel....
Looks like the on that happened in San Francisco in January.
That's what FED POLICY looks like.
Don't Fuck with the homeless.
Gold Bitchez..I pick up pennies
Cue up Motleys 'Highway to Hell'
Motley's?
Doc, Motley Crue sang "I love LA."
That would be a fitting song to kickstart my heart.
pods
"I see your hair is burning. Hills are filled with fire. If they say I never loved you, you know they are a liar."
Or better yet, AC/DC.
Dumbass, that would be AC/DC's Highway to Hell.
Go back to fucktard marketwitch.
Clueless clade7
16 weeks 3 days.
Yeah man, that rocks! I loved Culture Club when they sang "Run to the Hills"
Oh shit! I had "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap" in my alcohol soaked noggin at the same time...
Also AC/DC.
This is your post: Highway to Hell and Dirty Deeds = AC/DC
This is your post on alcohol: Highway to Hell and Dirty Deeds = Motley Crue
Don't post on Alcohol!
Yeah - you'll just get the letters wet and waste some good booze. :p
Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House", was the first thing that came to my mind.
No internal fire walls? Who got paid off? In CA with all their rules and regulations they didn't require them?
Burning down/collapsing a structure has been a lucrative Jooish scam for decades.
Good thing there's plenty of water out there this year.
Was it a steel structured building? If so, according to alleged cave dwelling terrorist physics the building should have collapsed within an hour. Was there also a building close by to this one that just poof, collapsed? Again, according to those physics stated by the government it should have.
I took an eight hour flight from Chicago to Honolulu and none of the engines melted from the jet fuel. Go figure!
Did those engines burn jet fuel all the way there? All 8 hours. Must be magic science.
LMAO!!!
You do realize that the towers collapsed because the structural support of internal core was cut out by the planes right?
I have a book abou the construction of those towers. to liken it to you would be for me to give you two broken legs, and expect you to stand with 4 inches of BONE MISSING at the break.
Internal core of the twin towers CAN'T be cut by simple wings.
But whatever, what about WTC 7 who simply had a small oxygen starved diesel fire in the first floor? Can you tell me why it collpased?
Yes!! it fell in SYMPATHY.
Ha! Made my morning with this one.
Amazes me to see people still attempt to rationalize the collapse of Building 7. The veil is growing thicker while the BS just keeps getting deeper (mostly via MSM). Really tough not to get cynical when considering it all.
See for yourself guys. WTC 7 collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnLcUxV1dPo
Unreal
I have a book about the towers too, one written before they collapsed, in fact it was written before they were finished building them. The basic structure was like a tree trunk with the floors cantilevered out like branches. The outside glass walls were curtain walls hanging from the structure and providing no support.
The only way those buildings could collapse, is if the core supports broke, which was impossible. As described by the engineers who were building it.
Those center supports not only broke, they all broke uniformly (at an angle) at a size that would fit nicely on a truck.
pods
You do realize that aluminum cant cut through feet of wound steel cable right? A fucking wing of a jet cant cut through a small tree, let alone heat treated tempered architectural steel. Jesus.
It was a total loss before the fire even started.
Got any Marshmallows?
Were any firefighters arrested by LAPD for illegally parking their trucks, and refusing to comply with orders to move them?
"....looks set to make the usual disastrous traffic in LA even more unbearable today"
Damn those fires and those pesky firefighters risking their lives to make them safe!!!! I've got to get home for my fav TV show tonight!
Hopefully no one has been killed or injured. The traffic congestion and inconvenience should be a little further down the list of concerns.
moar water
My bet: the stench of fergtard is all over this.
The MSM will never say it, though.
No it isn't. This is what it looks like when housing bubbles are pricked.
Hindenburg style.
Krugman's "Scorched Earth = Economic Girth" policy in action!
And yet, the steel frame stands and the buildings did not collapse into their footprints.
I don't think those were steel framed buildings. I think what you're seeing is scaffolding, and it looks like that did collapse, at least partially. Anyone care to confirm?
The steel frame have not ten (fully built and furnished) floors over it.
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We dont need no water, let the . . .
Seriously though, that is a LOT of unlicensed carbon emissions. EPA is gonna get P-A-I-D today.
You didn't burn that.
"We had to burn some folks."
Federal government statistics indicate a 300-unit increase in housing in LA overnight.
I bet the White House and the DOJ and very happyto see this. Martial law is coming up....
Here's the soundtrack... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxoD9zWY9Rg&spfreload=10
Why would you build a multi - story wooden structure in LA , don't they have earthquakes's there ?