Potential major New Orleans fire!

[scostorms]

On CNN, police officer told CNN producer to announce on air a whole block might go up in downtown. Police officer is now on air.

[InimanaChoogamaga]

The badness continues

[Rory]

Is that the one on the corner of Bourbon and Canal?

[djtil]

wouldnt doubt that rioters begin this type of thing.....not that this one was started this way.

[jpigott]

i'm afraid this is just the tip of the iceberg, we all talk about evacuating NO like it is a foregone conclusion. Listen, this type of evacuation from a major metro area in the US has never happened before, who knows what's in store for NO over the next few days. Local, state and feds are too busy trying to save lives to worry about the city just yet. I just hope "Pandoras Box" hasn't opened

[soonertwister]

I've said on several previous occasions that I thought it was likely that most of NOLA would burn down (or to water level) before it was ever reinhabited.

Read about the Grand Forks Fire if you can't understand how this might happen. I could not believe that the city electrical utility left the power on until the hurricane took their power away.

[gtalum]

Great. The FQ looks to have survived flooding only to be burned to the ground.

[Roxy]

It just gets worse and worse, I just can't believe what is going on.

[jpigott]

firemen are there, but get this, there is no water coming from the hydrants, guys this is in the French Quarter

[jpigott]

video looks like they just got water going thru the hose

[scogor]

Horrifying...like combining all of our country's disasters and heaping them upon the poor souls in NOLA and the Northern Gulf Coast...

[djtil]

is the video on CNN? please describe extent of fire...see smoke? flames??

[jpigott]

smoke visible, but no flames, reporter said fire was in interior of building

[canegrl04]

New Orleans has decended into hell

[alicia-w]

well,the upside is that if it all burns down, you dont have to relocate the debris.

[njoynit]

It would probably be easier to just re-locate the rubble to NO and fill it in and raise it up above sea level& rebuild it.
Where would you dispose of that much debree??

It would be a very long clean up......not to mention just WHERE they will re locate the water to.

Its just a mess.I'd have to say it looks like the worst hurricane to hit the coast.

couldn't those fires ignite on water?with all the leaks and stuff?

[Stratosphere747]

I've said on several previous occasions that I thought it was likely that most of NOLA would burn down (or to water level) before it was ever reinhabited.

Read about the Grand Forks Fire if you can't understand how this might happen. I could not believe that the city electrical utility left the power on until the hurricane took their power away.

There your are...

I was trying to quote your views on the fire hazards, and could not find the initial post you made. Could you copy and paste here please. It’s very possible what you described may happen. One reason why they must expedite the evacuation of the city.

Scott

[inotherwords]

CNN reported earlier that there was a fire in a shoe store today that had been set by looters. I don't know if this is the same fire as the one in the French Quarter, they did not give the location of the fire.

Please take this with a grain of salt, CNN has not exactly had a great track record reporting from this tragedy.