In the wake of 9/11 and the confusion of emergency response personnel, Mayor Bloomberg revamped the system with a “four-pronged emergency communications transformation program.” The plan also called for “‘unified call taking,”‘ where a police dispatcher takes all the information and relays any fire calls electronically. Read more »
Here’s a crazy Slav who goes by Pavel 183. Watch his mural come alive as he adds a little something extra with a Molotov cocktail. He had this whole mini-manifesto written about “giving up fame,” “burning bridges” and “rising out of your own smoldering ashes,” but we’ll spare you. Just go past 0:40 to see that shit burn. Sorry for the Russian rock.
This little guy’s name is Rugby and he totally saved two people from a fire in East Village today. Good dog.
Fires are raging all over Russia with 50 casualties and growing. Villages are burnt to smoldering dirt. And now that a thick, toxic fog has descended on the Moscow area and punk-ish protesters are strolling around in gas masks, things are getting a little too real for apocalyptic thriller director Chris Gorak. Read more »
Russia is on fire. There are fatalities and entire regions have been scorched and destroyed. Here’s footage of volunteers driving directly through the fire to help stranded villagers, full of flames and expletives. Read more »
The entire roof of a five-story East Village building on the corner of Avenue A and Houston Street became engulfed in flames yesterday, but luckily, New York’s Fieriest were able to quickly get the four-alarm blaze under control. Cool guy trend spotter Josh Spear shot some amazing photos of the action as it was happening. GammaBlog also captured great footage, see their video below. Read more »
The body of an elderly man was removed from the burned-out building on Grand St. that caught fire Sunday night. The building had multiple safety violations and will likely be demolished, leaving about 200 people homeless and dozens of businesses shuttered. Read more »
Downtown Eastside Vancouverians got all fretful over a burning building that was actually a video installation by Montreal artist Isabelle Hayeur. Setting the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor windows of a heritage building ablaze with Blu-Ray projectors, the artist assumed that “unless someone is really, really drunk” there wouldn’t be any alarming “ambiguity.” Wrong. Read more »
Dozens of artworks went up in flames last night at Art Burn 2009, an incendiary exhibition outside Miami’s jumble of fairs. Carrying on the tradition of anti-Renaissance priests and desert ravers, burn master and artist El Celso systematically torched creative pieces of kindling that included workwork by Michael De Feo, Darkcloud and fire tagger Ellis G. As promised, the inflammatory performance was well documented by co-host of combustion C-Monster.
Artists having trouble getting seen at Art Basel Miami should consider surrendering their work to an inflammatory new installation. Street artist CELSO is staging Art Burn 2009, a brief exhibition of “combustible works on wood and paper” that will be torched in a blaze of glory. There’s no fee to submit, but only the “best works will be burned,” a painful critique for those deemed unworthy of destruction. |C-Monster|
Photo via El Celso
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