With casino revenues already mainly in the toilet for the majority of Atlantic City’s land casinos, and the gambling town still dealing with last year’s devastation brought on by Hurricane Sandy which shut down many of the town’s casinos for days the very last thing this nj town needed ended up being any proximity at all to yet another disaster. Along with final week’s horrific Boardwalk fire in the Seaside Heights area maybe not directly attached to AC, but along the same 217-mile stretch of Atlantic shoreline that is frequented by lots of the same tourists and locals one can’t help but wonder if Atlantic City may likewise require an exorcist or to put bloodstream on its casino walls for a passover for the apparently ongoing plagues which are being doled out of on high.

Or maybe, wooden boardwalks while charming whenever built 150 years ago are merely not a safe building material within the modern globe. Fire professionals are, in fact, now saying the destructive fire seems to possess been a bout of arson, though the motivation is unclear.

More Damage after Sandy

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

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

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

The fire apparently started in a custard that is frozen for a weekday afternoon, and had become a six-alarm incendiary event by two hours later, impacting the entire FunTown Amusement Pier.

Boardwalk Fires in Atlantic City Typical

The fire was one among many that the Atlantic that is numerous City have succumbed to in only yesteryear 20 or so years. The flames easily spread, making one wonder if it’s time to rebuild these walkways with a perhaps less charming, but more durable, substance because of the old wooden slats that comprise the boardwalks.

In reality, a blaze that is intense in June 2007 destroyed five stores along the Atlantic City Boardwalk and even damaged the newest 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 a three-block stretch of the boardwalk.

The lower of most gambling towns are many homeless, frequently drug-addicted people, whom literally try living ‘underground’: in this case, Atlantic City officials say boardwalk fires in their city have actually frequently been due to homeless individuals living under the panels, who start fires to keep themselves hot at night or to cook food.

Regardless of the many fires, the iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk has survived for almost 150 years, and is, of course, the inspiration for the classic game, Monopoly. Whenever it went up in June 1870, the AC Boardwalk was one of the primary of its sort in America.