With casino revenues currently mainly in the toilet for the majority of Atlantic City’s land casinos, and the gambling town still coping with last year’s devastation due to Hurricane Sandy which shut straight down many of the city’s casinos for days the final thing this New Jersey city needed had been any proximity at all to yet another tragedy. And with final week’s horrific Boardwalk fire in the Seaside Heights area maybe not directly linked to AC, but along the same stretch that is 217-mile of shoreline that is frequented by most of the exact same tourists and locals one can’t help but wonder if Atlantic City may likewise require an exorcist or to put blood on its casino walls for the passover of the apparently ongoing plagues that are being doled out from on high.

Or maybe, wooden boardwalks while charming when built 150 years ago are simply not just a safe building material into the world that is modern. Fire experts are, in fact, now saying the destructive fire appears to possess been an episode of arson, though the motivation is unclear.

More Damage after Sandy

New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie, upon visiting the fire scene that destroyed many boardwalk structures, referred to it as an ‘unthinkable situation’. It took a lot more than 400 firefighters and 35 engine businesses to extinguish the raging finally inferno. The damage stretched over six blocks and 20 businesses many just rebuilt through the Sandy tragedy had been destroyed. While no casinos were affected, one can’t assist but assume this can not do anything to help Atlantic City’s ailing revenues.

After 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 experienced finally reopened for business come july 1st. Those repairs cost Seaside Heights most well-known because the hangout for the infamous TV ‘Jersey Shore’ audience $8 million for boardwalk repairs and a total of $16 million for many the damage done to Seaside Heights, in accordance with the city’s mayor, Bill Akers.

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

The fire evidently started in a custard that is frozen on 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 Common

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

In reality, a blaze that is intense in June 2007 destroyed five stores along the Atlantic City Boardwalk and also damaged the brand new Jersey Casino Control Commission’s head office.

5 years before that, an Atlantic City fire destroyed two beach patrol storage sheds, forcing the closing of a stretch that is three-block of boardwalk.

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

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