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bruxalle t1_jdipca0 wrote

Reply to comment by ThatChildNextDoor in Does anyone remember the massive 2004 Richmond fire? by ThatChildNextDoor

The dorm caught on fire. It was big.

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Gorz0th t1_jdj7tda wrote

Always was an apartment building.

You could be standing at Grace and Shafer (used to be a VCU parking lot) and feel the heat. Traffic was fucked, Broad was blocked, and had to jump off the bus at Belv. and walk west. If I remember, cars were cooked in the parking deck across the street, it set off a few other fires in Carver.

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JeffRVA t1_jdjixps wrote

>If I remember, cars were cooked in the parking deck across the street,

They were. I had a friend that was parked on the side of the West Broad Deck closest to the fire and her car was totaled.

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RCBilldoz t1_jdmeeck wrote

And the laptop and other research in the car. What a year!

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chasetwisters t1_jdkgiap wrote

95 was shut down. The wind blew the smoke and embers towards 95 across Carver

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