With casino revenues currently mostly in the toilet for the majority of Atlantic City’s land casinos, and the gambling town nevertheless recovering from last year’s devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy which shut straight down many of the city’s casinos for days the past thing this nj town needed was any proximity at all to just one more catastrophe. Sufficient reason for last week’s horrific Boardwalk fire in the Seaside Heights area perhaps not directly connected to AC, but along the same stretch that is 217-mile of shoreline that is frequented by many of the same tourists and locals one can’t help but wonder if Atlantic City may also need an exorcist or to put bloodstream on its casino walls for a passover associated with apparently ongoing plagues which can be being doled out from on high.

Or possibly, wooden boardwalks while charming whenever built 150 years ago are simply just not just a safe building material within the world that is modern. Fire specialists are, in reality, now saying the destructive fire appears to own been an episode of arson, although the motivation is unclear.

More Damage after Sandy

Nj’s Governor Chris Christie, upon visiting the fire scene that destroyed many boardwalk buildings, referred to it being an ‘unthinkable situation’. It took significantly more than 400 firefighters and 35 engine businesses to finally extinguish the raging inferno. The harm extended over six blocks and 20 businesses many just rebuilt through the Sandy disaster had been destroyed. While no casinos were affected, one can’t assist but assume this will not do anything to help Atlantic City’s ailing revenues.

Following Sandy during which the world-famous Jet celebrity roller coaster was torn and tossed into the ocean’s water by the extreme storm the FunTown Pier on which it rested experienced finally reopened for business this summer. Those repairs cost Seaside Heights most well-known as the hangout for the TV ‘Jersey that is infamous Shore audience $8 million for boardwalk repairs and a total of $16 million for several the damage done to Seaside Heights, based on the city’s mayor, Bill Akers.

In 2012, the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast staged a fundraiser to help rebuild the boardwalk following Sandy with the inevitable MTV live occasion from Times Square.

The fire evidently started in a frozen custard store on a weekday afternoon, and had become a six-alarm incendiary event by two hours later on, affecting the entire FunTown Amusement Pier.

Boardwalk Fires in Atlantic City Typical

The fire ended up being one among many that the numerous Atlantic City area-boardwalks have succumbed to in only the past 20 or so years. Due to the old wooden slats that comprise the boardwalks, the flames easily spread, making one wonder if it’s time to rebuild these walkways by having a perhaps less charming, but more durable, substance.

In fact, an intense blaze straight back in June 2007 destroyed five stores along the Atlantic City Boardwalk and even damaged the New Jersey Casino Control Commission’s head office.

Five years before that, an Atlantic City fire destroyed two coastline patrol garden storage sheds, forcing the closure of the stretch that is three-block of boardwalk.

The underside of most gambling towns are numerous homeless, frequently drug-addicted people, whom literally take to living ‘underground’: in this instance, Atlantic City officials say boardwalk fires inside their city have frequently been brought on by homeless people residing under the panels, who start fires to help keep by themselves hot at night or even to cook food.

The iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk has survived for almost 150 years, and is, of course, the inspiration for the classic board game, Monopoly despite the many fires. When it went up in June 1870, the AC Boardwalk was among the first of its type in America.