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< on 2/6/2008 4:14 PM >
|  | | | Last spring a Budget Inn in a South Atlanta suburb caught fire. According to the news reports, the fire started on a stack of discarded mattresses behind the building, near a gas meter. Arson is suspected.
Most of the occupants of this Budget in were residents. No fire sprinklers were installed. A family of five was trapped in a second floor room and failed to be rescued in time.
It is stunning to me that in the city that lays claim to the deadliest hotel fire in US history (the Winecoff, December 1946) we still allow hotels to operate without adequate fire protection.
These pictures were taken after the fire investigation and before the demolition crew arrived.
My heart goes out to the family and friends of those who died. I support efforts to require commercial residences and hotels to have adequate fire suppression equipment, and be maintained and inspected properly and regularly. I hope these pictures help drive that point home.
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NAN
   
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| | | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 1 on 2/6/2008 4:22 PM >
| | | | wow, interesting. I really like 2, 5, 6, 8
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argonian
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| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 2 on 2/6/2008 4:37 PM >
| | | | I like 8.
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| | | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 3 on 2/6/2008 6:29 PM >
| | | | Interesting place. A+ for originality.
I guess that water tower next door did not help much.
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Wiccan
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Hamilton Ontario
Gender: Female
| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 4 on 2/7/2008 12:05 AM >
| | | | How sad and rotten is that.
Thanks for sharing them though,more people need to see how devastating fire can be. My young cousin and her friend died in a fire in the 70's,another case of a lack of alarms and such.
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JustinDustin
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Duluth, GA
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 5 on 2/7/2008 3:43 PM >
| | | | Ditto on #8, that one is awesome. It was also a lack of sprinkler system that allowed the fire at the Days Inn off I-75 to cause so much damage (that's the one I was telling you about the other day). That hotel has been abandoned for years, but is finally about to be renovated and restored.
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MutantMandias
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| | | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 6 on 2/7/2008 9:04 PM >
| | | | Yeah, I keep meaning to bust into that place. They're so slow, it seems like all of the work is being done by a couple of guys.
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| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 7 on 2/7/2008 10:05 PM >
| | | | the one off delk rd? they have a 24/7 guard, but yeah, very very slow work being done.
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Gulliver
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<Reply # 8 on 2/14/2008 2:59 AM >
| | | | #8 is truly stunning. If there was an urban exploring photo contest, I would vote for it.
It looks like that was one hell of a fire. I'm not sure fire sprinklers would have been enough to save the family. It might have slowed the fire, but it probably wouldn't have stopped it.
I wonder who decided to "hit the mattresses."
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Rudnick
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| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 9 on 2/14/2008 2:53 PM >
| | | | #3 Is my fav. The sky looks very foreboding..
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IDChris
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Gender: Male
| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 10 on 3/5/2008 11:20 PM >
| | | | #8 rocks!
#6 and 7 show an interesting contrast between the lower and upper floor.
Sympathies to those who lost loved ones.
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Todd D.
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| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 11 on 3/13/2008 12:51 PM >
| | | | those inside shots where so cool and i thought burnt buildings were lame.. shows you what i know
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Chrissy
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Seaview Downs - South Australia
Gender: Female
| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 12 on 3/16/2008 2:19 AM >
| | | | I love number 8.
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GAM1
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York, Pa.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 13 on 5/30/2008 7:07 PM >
| | | | cool shots!
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makigai
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Florida
Gender: Male
| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 14 on 5/31/2008 5:22 PM >
| | | | 8 is a winner.
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Oryx
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| | Re: Budget Inn Fire
<Reply # 15 on 6/6/2008 8:16 PM >
| | | | Oh wow these are beautiful. I love exploring burned out buildings.
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