The reason you and I are up and about at 4 am? According to real-time 911, several trucks dispatched to a fire in the building that houses Windermere’s office on 19th Ave.
In addition to the Windermere office which was recently undergoing a construction upgrade, the building is home to a catering business, Fleckstein Capital (CHS: Your friendly 19th Ave hedge fund manager) and hair salon KittyHawk (CHS: Lo does my hair!).
I mean, it’s morbid to look at, right? But it’s interesting…
It will freak you out less than watching the CNN ticker crawl across the bottom of your screen. At least these incidents are real!
Between the RT 911 page and Central District News’s live scanner blogging, you can pretty much find out what’s happening whenever you hear a siren around here.
Walked by this morning on way to grab some coffee at Volunteer Park Cafe. Looks like fire was limited to the Windermere office and didn’t do too much damage to the main structure. The walls and staircase were charred and there was a small pile of burnt debris in the gutter in front of the building. All in all, it looks like the fire department got things under control quickly.
They were doing some (a lot of) remodeling in that office. Wonder if something overturned like a solvent or something…