Okay, I'm in tears now. CNN had a videophone report minutes ago about a fire in the French Quarter--Canal & Bourbon street.
The firefighters are pumping water from the street, but the debris is making it difficult to fight the fire.
They're worried that it will jump to the other old structures.
This is exactly what happened in the town where I live-a fire flattened a 25-year old shopping center, the oldest mall in this town. The buildings were all connected and had a lot of wood inside, just like the buildings in the FQ.
Also, the mall had no sprinkler system--and even if the old buildings in the Quarter were retrofitted with sprinklers (were they?), there's no water...
It is so incredibly sad. I was going to call the local talk radio host this a.m. when he was talking about it, but I thought I'd start to cry on the air.
The looters burned down the French Quarter!
How appropriate....it didnt look like they were having success with that fire