Sleepy....

I really wish I could just crawl back into bed and sleep till noon today.

Sigh.

I might just go and do that tomorrow. I really need a day to myself where I can lock all the doors and turn off my phone so no one will bother me.

Last Pottstown Fire Update:

According to the Mercury this morning, Village Productions escaped any damage from the great Pottstown Fire of '08. Whew. That would have really sucked if they had suffered damage so close to their opening in June.

Fire Update

So I ran some errands and stopped by the fire location. Police, Fire, and demolition crews have a bout 2 blocks of High Street blocked off as they are tearing down some of the buildings that have been damaged. All in all, it looks like 3 buildings have been totally gutted and another 3 or 4 buildings probably have some smoke and water damage.

On an up note, it doesn't look like the building Village Productions is looking to fix up and make into a theater sustained any damage. Although that entire block is without power for the time being. According to KYW1060, that area will be closed all day today and likely all day tomorrow.

What a mess.

Fire In Pottstown

Yesterday, as I was driving around with Matt, Mike, Brandon, Greg looking at theaters for the Hopper Brothers, there was a huge fire in Pottstown. Over the summer there was another huge fire that burnt down a warehouse and was like a 2 alarm fire. This fire was MUCH bigger.

According to The Pottstown Mercury, this fire was a 4 alarm fire, with over 200 firefighters coming in from 3 counties. When all was said and done, a half of city block burnt to the ground, 40 people were homeless, and 2.5 million dollars worth of damage was done. It wasn't the biggest fire in Pottstown, but it could be the most expensive one. NBC10 's website has a pretty good slide show of pictures of the scene.

The crappy part of this is that the place where Village Productions was suppose to open over the summer is on the same city block. I can't tell whether or not it was damaged or burnt down. I have some errands to run today, so I am going to poke around and see if their building was save.

According to the fire chief... they were lucky that they "didn't loose the entire city block."