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AND BRIAN, WHAT’S HAPPENING THERE TONIGHT? BRIAN: THE FIRE SPREAD FROM ONE BUILDING TO THE NEXT, THERE WAS SO MUCH DAMAGE, ALMOST ALL OF THE STRUCTURES ARE VERY UNSTABLE THEY ARE TEARING DOWN ALL BUT ONE OF THE STRUCTURES. YOU CAN SEE THE CRANE ON TOP, JUST RIPPING APART THIS BUILDING THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS. THE GOAL IS TO TAKE DOWN ALL BUT ONE OF THE BUILDINGS THAT WAS ON FIRE. FOR THIS PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUILT MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO -- >> IT IS SAD. BRIAN: IT WAS THE FIRE OF THE CENTURY. WHAT T FLAMES DID NOT DESTROY, RECORD CRUISE -- WRECKING CREWS HAVE TO, BECAUSE ALMOST EVERYTHING LEFT, COULD BE CLASSIFIED ON THE SCALE OF UNSTABLE TO UNPREDICTABLE. IT STARTED LIKE THIS. THE FIRE RAGING EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST CREWS ARRIVED, BUT MORE WAS LOST THAN BUILDINGS. VIOLET BALDRICK GREW UP IN ONE OF THE HOUSES THAT BURNED, SOME HAVE LIVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR GENERATIONS. >> SO IT’S VERY SAD, PART OF OUR HISTORY GONE BRIAN: FIVE BUILDINGS DESTROYED, THREE OCCUPIED, TWO VACANT. FIREFIGHTERS HAD TO RESCUE ONE WOMAN WHO WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR. NO ONE WAS INJURED BUT ONE FAMILY DID LOSE THEIR DOG TO THE FIRE. CREWS TRIED TO GET IT UNDER CONTROL, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE UNTIL IT GOT TOO DANGEROUS >> WE DID HAVE PEOPLE OPERATING BUT WE WERE ABLE TO PULL THEM OUT PROBABLY FIVE MINUTES BEFORE IT COLLAPSED. BRIAN: TWO OF THE BUILDINGS WERE BUILT IN 1895, AT LEAST ONE WI COME DOWN. PEOPLE HERE CAN’T IMAGINE THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITHOUT IT. AIN’T NEVER SEEN NOTHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS BAD. BRIAN: AFTER A FIRE THAT WIPED OUT THE BETTER PART OF THE BLOCK, AND DIVIDED TIME HERE INTO BEFORE AND AFTER THE FIRE OF 2019. INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOT DETERMINED A CAUSE THEY DO SAY IT STARTED IN A HOUSE ON THE BACK SID IT WAS RIGHT WHERE THAT PIECE OF EQUIPMENT IS SITTING AND TEARING DOWN THE REST OF THE BUILDINGS. I TALKED TO THE FAMILY WHO WAS THERE. THEY WERE NOT HOME, BUT THEY DID LOSE THEIR DOG IN THE FIRE. THEY HAVE BEEN PUT UP BY THE RED CROSS. SHE IS STAYING W

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