Memory - Ada Fire

I have a little bit of extra time and so I thought that it would be a perfect time to share a memory. I'm hoping to do this on a regular basis.

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The Ada Fire

I was looking through some old pictures and came across these. During Jon's second year of law school one of the buildings in Ada caught fire. It was a very large fire and at first I thought that it was one of the old church buildings in Ada that was on fire. But it was 3 stories tall. The top 2 stories were apartments. I think the fire started in one of the apartments or attic. There were a few businesses on the bottom floor. We often went to the Movie Rental place that was on the ground floor, even though you could only rent the movie for 1 night. In the picture below, it was where all the windows are busted out and all you can see is bricks and debris. There was also a tattoo parlor right next to that, but they were lucky enough to have moved to a newer location about a month before the fire. If you look closely, you can see a For Rent sign in their window.

I remember that the entire town was filled with smoke that night. Also, because there was such a large demand on the water and water pressure that it did something funky to the tap water. The water was all cloudy for a couple of months. Main Street had to be closed off for a few weeks and then the building just sat there like this for a while. When Jon and I came back for our 3rd year, the building had been demolished and there was only a vacant lot there.