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- From: skenny@pico.engr.mun.ca (Shawn Kenny)
- Subject: Re: Fire in St. John's, Nfld.
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- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- References: <1992Dec22.132414.24941@epas.toronto.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:29:38 GMT
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- sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca (Stephanie Moskal Fysh) writes:
-
- >Could someone in Newfoundland please post more info. about the fire in
- >St. John's? I'd like to know what block(s) have been destroyed. They
- >have a strange reluctance to report such matters as street names on
- >the news!
-
- The area in question is around the Parade Street terminal where, among
- other streets, LeMerchant Rd, Long's Hill and Harvey Rd intersect.
-
- As far as I know the fire, which started in the CLB Armoury, was
- initially thought to be under control. Obviously it wasn't. The fire
- flared up again and subsequently gutted the Social Services building and
- Dominion store next to the CLB. Cool temperatures and high winds didn't
- make the matters any easier for controlling the blaze. Embers were carried
- across the street where a half-dozen or so adjoined wooden buildings caught
- fire. This was enough cause for concern that residents in the area were
- forced to evacuate and retire to a make-shift hostel. BTW most of the area
- and downtown core of St. John's consists of adjoined structures. Initial
- estimates put the damage at several million. Also the CLB Armoury had an
- "historic archive" of photos and such which (as far as I know) is lost
- ---- quite a shame.
-
-
-
-
- >--
- >Stephanie Moskal Fysh | "Today an eighteenth-century scholar may well
- >Dept. of English | be Jewish, female, or generally irreverent."
- >Univ. of Toronto | - Lawrence Lipking
- >(sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca) |
- --
- "I'm having a lot of holiday stress. ... Deep down, I doubt my greed for
- presents can overcome my desire to misbehave." Calvin and Hobbes by
- Bill Watterson.
- skenny@pico.engr.mun.ca St. John's, NF Canada
-