Fire Breaks out in Old Post Office Building
CHICAGO---- Fire broke out Tuesday in a ventilation system in the city's vacant former post office where a movie crew had been filming scenes for an upcoming ''Batman'' sequel, sending black smoke billowing.
District Fire Chief Jose Santiago said insulation inside the ''very old ventilation system'' caught fire shortly before 11:30 a.m., and had nothing to do with the filming. There were no injuries, he said.
''It looked a lot worse than it really was,'' Santiago said. The fire was contained to the 16th-floor ventilation shaft in the 17-story building, and most of the flames were extinguished by a sprinkler system, fire department officials said.
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I don't know, my conspiracy meter just twitched a notch. A couple vacant Sullivan buildings burn down, and now there's a fire in the Post Office's "very old ventilation system". So now there's smoke and water damage, which would lend support for the demolition plan.
Maybe fans of the athletic club should keep an eye out on that building...