F-F-F-Fire in Uptown. (Update: Might be the Loon.) (Nope. Bibbentucker’s)

Posted on January 4th, 2008 2:59pm by Adam McGill
Filed under Local News

A window-having FrontBurnervian reports:

Huge fire in uptown, same building as Bibbentuckers – where part of my wardrobe is presently – according to DFD. Any FBers know anything?

Anyone?

Update: A friend-having FrontBurnervian says,

My friend who lives in Uptown just text messaged me it was the Loon!

Oh. No. Bad. Bad.

Update, Update: Looking more like Bibbentucker’s. So reports Merritt Martin. And so looks like from this photo someone sent me (more pictures here):

bibbentuckers-fire.jpg

15 comments

  1. I just spoke to my dad (who lives off Blackburn) and he said Cole is totally blocked off at Blackburn right by West Village. He said it looks like West Village.

    @ 3:03 pm on January 4, 2008

  2. LOTS of smoke…wind’s not helping, either. I can see the news choppers hovering about, but nothing up on either NBC or DMN sites…yet.

    @ 3:04 pm on January 4, 2008

  3. Bet there will be some upset $30,000 millionaires when they go to pick up their clothes!

    @ 3:08 pm on January 4, 2008

  4. I sure hope it’s not the Loon!!

    @ 3:08 pm on January 4, 2008

  5. I will die if it’s The Loon!

    @ 3:10 pm on January 4, 2008

  6. Just spoke with someone at West Village… it is for sure Bibbentuckers that is on fire.

    @ 3:10 pm on January 4, 2008

  7. And they are not letting firefighters in because of the chemicals. So they just have a hose propped up from a truck and are spraying water in that way.

    @ 3:13 pm on January 4, 2008

  8. Oh man. I really wanted it to be the Loon. But this is still interesting. BMWs and Hummers will begin circling to learn the fate of their powersuits and designer clothes any moment now.

    @ 3:16 pm on January 4, 2008

  9. I’m certain its the loon. You get a cigarrette too close to a drink served from that place and ……BOOM!

    @ 3:24 pm on January 4, 2008

  10. It started at Bibbentuckers, it is a total loss. My husband works at one of the other store.

    @ 3:34 pm on January 4, 2008

  11. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010508dnmetfire.cf22949.html

    Definitely Bibbentuckers. We’ve been watching it from the top floor of our building at Fitzhugh and 75.

    @ 3:57 pm on January 4, 2008

  12. I just had lunch at The Loon so I knew it wasn’t that location.

    Bibben*uckers is getting it! Ha!

    @ 4:10 pm on January 4, 2008

  13. Craziest part of this is Bibbentucker’s had 31 employees inside. 31 in a dry cleaners? No wonder their prices are ridiculous. I’ve never seen more than 10 employees tops in a dry cleaners.

    @ 6:06 pm on January 4, 2008

  14. I moved from Dallas. Miss Bibbentuckers. a bit costly but a DARN GREAT JOB of cleaning and WONDERFUL SERVICE. and I drive a Chevy.

    @ 6:49 pm on January 4, 2008

  15. For more pictures visit:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbellemare/sets/72157603634605742/

    @ 12:38 am on January 5, 2008