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<p><font size="5">Fire at Mill D</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="5"> </font> <font size="+3"><u>There's Trouble
At The Mill:<br>
</u></font>On Friday, July 18th at or around 5:00PM, the section of Mill D
containing
the <a href="milld-3.html">Latex and Clay Tanks</a> burned down. According to
the Kalamazoo Gazette, the neighbors suspect arson, and I would concur with this
since there is no electrical or natural-gas service to Mill D.</p>
<p align="left">According to the Kalamazoo Gazette, another very small fire
had occurred in a section of Mill D on the previous Sunday (July 13th). However,
I think that the article may have been incorrect, and that the previous fire
may actually have been in the wreckage of Mill E. After the first fire, I
did not see any damage to the outside of Mill D but parts of Mill E did look
somewhat singed. </p>
<p align="left">These continuing fires at the mill make me very angry. If other
people want to come and look at the mill and take pictures of it or take
shelter in it, I don't mind that at all. I don't like it very much
when other people go into the mill in order to steal equipment or dump
garbage. However, I feel nothing but contempt and disgust for anyone who
would attempt to destroy the mill by setting it on fire. You know, some things
harm other people, and some things don't. If somebody goes in the mill and
drops their camera onto concrete from two stories above, then that is of
course too bad but the owner of the camera is the only person harmed. But
when you start burning the mill
down, you cause
trouble
for a lot of other people. Firefighters have to come and risk injury in putting
out the fire. The residents of the neighborhood have to worry about exposure
to smoke and whatever chemicals it might contain, not to mention the risk
of the fire spreading to their house. The police have to waste time patrolling
an unused area that nobody would care about had you not tried to burn
it down. You have now made it impossible for responsible individuals (except
via this website and other archival material) to enjoy the history and legacy
of the part of the mill that you destroyed. And you
make it a lot more difficult for anyone to enjoy the legacy and history of
the remaining buildings.</p>
<p align="left">Who set the fire? I don't know. The Geek Group used to frequent
the mill, but I don't think that they do anymore, and I don't think that
they would have set it on fire anyway. The "Milwood Middle G.D.s" ("Gangster
Dsiciples") have left a bunch of graffiti in Mill C and in the Living Ways
parking lot, but I've never met them and don't know a whole lot about them.
I have seen quite a few neighborhood youngsters around the mill, but none
of them really seemed like they had crime on their minds. I guess you never
really know, though. In any event, I hope that whoever did this decides not
to do it again.</p>
<p align="left">Luckily, the portion of Mill D that burned (it was the building
containing the clay and latex storage tanks, and another tank that was probably
used for mixing) was situated across Portage Creek from the other part of
Mill D to which it was attached. And luckily, the fire department prevented
the fire from spreading through the foliage to the other parts of Mill D.
This did contain the fire to just that one building. </p>
<p align="left">A couple of days after the fire occurred, the city brought
out some demolition equipment and tore down the burned out remains of the
building. Happily, they refrained from tearing down any of the undamaged
buildings, and have subsequently removed the demolition equipment. Below
are some photographs of the wreckage, post-demolition.</p>
<p align="left"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4949.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4949.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
One was not previously able to see quite that much of the Powerhouse from
here.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4953.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4953.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
...</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4954.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4954.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
I guess those tanks were really built to last.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4959.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4959.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a> <br>
It seems weird to be able to see this much of the other side of Mill D from
here.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4962.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4962.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
There's the (ex-)connector over the creek to the rest of Mill D.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4968.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4968.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
What once was this imposing mill is now a bunch of rubble. I guess not everything
in the basement was destroyed, though.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4969.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4969.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
It doesn't get a lot bleaker than this, does it?</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4981.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4981.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
I hope that isn't one of the "wheels of progress." Because it ain't turnin'
any more.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4982.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4982.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
I don't suppose that the owners of the Illinois Envelope Company (pictured
in the background) were very happy about all of this, either.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4983.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4983.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
This lucky tank escaped both the fire and the bulldozers.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4985.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4985.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
Here's another part of Mill D that was previously not visible from this angle.
I sure wouldn't have predicted that I'd be complaining about new parts
of
the
mill being
made visible, but here I am doing so nonetheless.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="photo/milld-fire/1024/IMG_4990.jpg"><img src="photo/milld-fire/IMG_4990.jpg" width="512" height="384" border="2"></a><br>
I dont think that it had anything to do with the fire, but I did notice while
I was there that the leak in this pipe has become much larger than it was last
summer. (In case anyone wonders, I'm quite sure that the substance flowing
from the pipe is only water that entered the pipe at some point upstream.)</p>
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