Fire at the NR: Smoke'n Hot Site Catches Fire, Goes Offline

Ah, Jeeze! After nearly three years working continiously to build a sufficient body of information and news to present a Radical analysis of American Corporate Fascism, a fire has made the job a lot harder.

Fire at the NR: Smoke'n Hot Site Catches Fire, Goes Offline
Submitted by alexwierbinski on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 08:03. categories [ ]

Came Home at 3:30 in the Afternoon to This

Submitted by alexwierbinski on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 08:08.

This is the view that greeted me when I arrived home at 3:30 in the afternoon from a rather physical fence job. Digging cement out, digging holes, site-mixing cement. Pretty tiring.

I had it all planned: A shower, a cocktail of anti-inflamatories and Codine, (I'm old and broke too many bones while getting old) along with a nap were all in order before working on the NextRevolution and CommitteeforDemocracy.

My plans changed instantly when I saw the smoke and flame scarring around the hole in the building that was my roomate's window.

Rest, let alone anything beyond dealing with this situation, has been out of the question since that moment.

Hell, I've had no real rest since. Only increasing fatigue.

When I arrived at the unit, the firemen had pretty much terminated active firefighting, and were thermal testing the walls for hidden hotspots, and raking out the last bits of the incenerated remnants of my roomate's bedroom through the apartment to throw down on the patio.

They were good guys, and looked like they had fun putting it out. They told me the story. There happened to be two firemen who had freed an individual from an elevator nearby. They smelled smoke, and hunted it down to my place.

I insist on keeping the doors in the hallway and the room doors closed. This, along with sharp firefighters, likely saved my apartment from inceneration, if not a significant chunk of the building.

Nonetheless, I was unable to reconnect until thursday night, and unable to maintain either this site or the committee site for the next few days, if not longer.

I'm fucking exhausted today, Thursday, (actually 1am Friday.)

Update: nothing has changed at 1:59 am Saturday morning. Except I have spent, and will spend, many hours cleaning the smoke damage that permeates everything I own.

The fire started in my roomate's room, reached a high tempeture, and was of electrical/unknown origin.

I have had an excellent hard-labor job, which I could not leave hanging, nor could I work a full day when I had to immediatly clean, box, and store every thing I own.

I finished the fence job on Friday morning, and worked in my apartment until dark, and finally took part of a day off.

The next four days or so will be dedicated to all the many aspects of recovery.

I hope to find a high-speed location where I can put a dest and my computer gear as soon as possible. Oh, and a place to live.