Massive fire in Denver at construction site

[sparrowsong]

www.9news.com/article/news/local/smoke-visible-for-miles-due-to-construction-fire-in-downtown-denver/73-526642133


40 cars destroyed by heat (100 ft + away) 2 workers still missing.

Holy shit you guys. That view of the city and smoke plumes is literally the view from my living room window. (Of place I’m selling... I’m not there now.)

[amberlyrose]

That's my old neighborhood My friend was walking nearby when a car exploded. He said it went from a little smoke to major flames pretty quickly. I can't believe it was so large and burned that hot.

Thankfully we didn't have the winds we had 2 days ago or it could've been a lot worse. The wind took out my fence and those of a few neighbors.

[pugz]

Scary! We had a similar one here last year and it was close to neighborhoods and houses were destroyed. The direction of the wind was the only thing that spared nearby houses

[walterismydog]

I watched it from my office (about 5 blocks away) where it started as a tiny little stream of smoke to hellfire flames shooting WAY high into the sky. It was intense. It was crazy how quickly it all happened and then how fast it looked like nothing happened.

[aliciabella]

Damn, that is crazy.

That one video has the entire thing engulfed in flames before the cops even arrived. Crazy.

[MrsAxilla]

The plume was so thick it looked a lot closer than downtown from where I was in Littleton. You’re not joking about the wind, amberlyrose. We’re very lucky it didn’t happen two days ago.

[winecat]

This is the first I'm seeing of this. I've heard that the reason so many of the homes in central Denver are brick is because of fire spreading and destroying most homes in the mid-late 1800s.

[sparrowsong]

That’s interesting winecat. I didn’t know that.

[amberlyrose]

Mar 8, 2018 2:39:33 GMT -5 winecat said:

This is the first I'm seeing of this. I've heard that the reason so many of the homes in central Denver are brick is because of fire spreading and destroying most homes in the mid-late 1800s.

denverfirefightersmuseum.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-denver-fire-of-1863.html