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This
page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series
of web-page about the Camden Fire Department that began with the page Camden
Fire Department: The Fires of the Summer of 2011. On this and other
pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding
different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey.
During
the morning of January 28, 2012 a fire was set in the abandoned
one-story commercial building at 1037-1039 Broadway that had been the
home of the Red Carpet
Lounge, a popular bar and nightclub during the
1980s and 1990s, owned and operated by Elaine Brundage and her family.
The bar had been closed since the late 1990s, and although heavily
fortified, had been broken into and had been the scene of fires
previously. Adjacent to the Red Carpet
at 1033-1035 Broadway, another
one-story commercial building which had been abandoned in the late 1980s
was also damaged, or rather, received further damage, as this building
too had been the scene of previous fires. Companies responding to this
fire effected forcible entry and shortly after commencing operations
switched to defensive tactics. One firefighter was treated by EMS
personnel for heat exhaustion during this incident.
All
photos are presented in the order in which they were taken. There
are so many images for this fire that I have split coverage of this fire
into three parts, this being Page 1. There are links below to continue
to Page 2 and Page 3.
As with
the web page covering other Camden Fire Department events, if you can
identify anyone that I've missed, please e-mail me. (I'm terrible
at at names and faces)..
Phil
Cohen
January 30, 2012 |
