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Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by Amy » Jun Mon 27, 2011 1:13 pm

Sounds like a pretty serious fire near the Animal Kingdom (about 1 mile away) late last night and into this morning. Here is a link...
http://m.pbpost.com/pbpost/pm_11247/con ... d=v5wv1ULt
Reports say there are 8 injured, including 2 firefighters. No word on the extent of their injuries yet.

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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by MadEye » Jun Mon 27, 2011 1:36 pm

Amy wrote:Reports say there are 8 injured, including 2 firefighters. No word on the extent of their injuries yet.
Mostly smoke inhalation from what I've read.
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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by Amy » Jun Mon 27, 2011 1:44 pm

MadEye wrote:
Amy wrote:Reports say there are 8 injured, including 2 firefighters. No word on the extent of their injuries yet.
Mostly smoke inhalation from what I've read.
Ah, good to hear. Burn injuries are so painful :(. Hopefully they will all be ok in a short amount of time!

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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by Jacca5660 » Jun Mon 27, 2011 1:54 pm

Yea it's bad. You can smell smoke all over central Florida!
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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by MmeLeota » Jun Mon 27, 2011 6:28 pm

We heard about it this morning. I saw a picture, but I'm not sure what site it was from. I did however, find this from the Chicago Tribune. There are pictures and video of the fire. I couldn't believe the sheer size of the blaze! Not to mention the damage! :shock:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... ?track=rss

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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by Amy » Jun Mon 27, 2011 6:37 pm

MmeLeota wrote:We heard about it this morning. I saw a picture, but I'm not sure what site it was from. I did however, find this from the Chicago Tribune. There are pictures and video of the fire. I couldn't believe the sheer size of the blaze! Not to mention the damage! :shock:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... ?track=rss
Wow ~ that is unbelievable how completely destroyed the hotel was. I wouldn't be surprised to find out there were missing extinguishers and sprinklers that weren't working properly as the story suggested.

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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by jacobcary1 » Jun Tue 28, 2011 10:26 am

Hopefully the animals didn't breathe the smoke.

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Re: Fire near Animal Kingdom

Post by mindflipper » Jun Tue 28, 2011 12:47 pm

Heck, most of Florida is burning at this time... :(

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