Fire at ACC

Sorry for your loss. That was an awesome place for this area for several years. Thank you for providing it.

 

Sorry for your loss. I always wanted to stop in but I'm hardly ever that way. As a volunteer firefighter and seeing up close and personal of what scenes like that look like. It always makes me sick. I couldn't ever imagine what it's like to loose everything. No matter how many times I've been on scene. It never gets easier seeing people's personal belongings, pictures ext ext burnt and soaked with water. I'm glad no one was hurt. My thoughts and prayers are all yours.

 

Man, what a bummer!! /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/sad.gif Looks like it was a surround and drown too, which means there wasn't much that could be done other than to keep it from burning surrounding areas.... Thoughts to you, Craig. What a loss...

 

Sorry for your loss. I hope you will be able to bounce back.

 

Took these pictures this morning. It was still smoldering. Bummer deal for sure.

 

Greeted by mounds of mangled iron and charred remnants of lumber shrouded by two cinderblock walls managing to hold their own. A steel desk and file cabinet manage to support some roofing, stripped of its finish and left to rust to the exposure. Steel beams fractured from a symphony of chaos.


Looking beyond the mass lay completely unmolded piles of plastic connected to perfectly fit bulkheads lucky to be greeted by a foot of intact pipe. Steel cylinders with perfectly formed vent louvers occupied the homogenized mess, likely once attached to the other end of the terminated pipe. Sheets of plastic spear toward the sky, centers clear as glass yet lacking any form once met to a charred edge.


These were aquariums, Aquariums home to skimmers now scattered like tumbleweeds with a physique perfect to perform until it meets its fill height. Heaters in perfect condition until an energy source be required. Rock overcome with cancer, a battle lost to a torrent of flames. Coral, now resembling of fossils, purely white and a patters no doubt of another world.





South end of building\ the tank room











Any equipment submerged survived, lucky to have a foot of power cord attached. Anything above waterline failed (see skimmer)














Coral skeleton laying where a sps frag tank set.








some sponge, survivor of the fire surly because of the tank water

 

Craig, I am very sorry about AC&C.
It is a great loss. I did not realize until today that this had happened.
My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.