Apartment Building Gutted By Fire To Be Torn Down

Posted: Nov 20, 2009 5:33 PM
Updated: Nov 20, 2009 9:41 PM

The remains of an apartment building in Rowan County will be torn down after a fire gutted it Friday afternoon.

A police officer was treated for smoke inhalation after the fire broke out at about noon at the building, located on Main Street in Morehead. Officials say all the residents home at the time were able to make it out safely and all pets were also taken out of the building.

A resident of the building says it had been converted and that it had five one-bedroom apartments that housed students from Morehead State University.

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    Editor at Nov 20th 2009 8:27 PM

    A resident had been converted?

    Does anyone at this station proofread?

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    Bill Brasky at Nov 20th 2009 9:31 PM

    My girlfriend lives there. Or did, before her home was engulfed in flames. She's homeless temporarily, living on, I'm sure, the charity of her many friends more than willing to give a little to her for all that she's given to them.

    She had a beautiful mural on her wall painted by a former resident of a peacock fighting a phoenix. She and some friends did some more paintings on some of the other walls. There was color literally on every inch of that apartment. She had even told me how excited she was to make her windows into stained-glass windows using tissue paper. That's all burned down and gone away, just like the Beatles posters we brought home from the Abbey Road on the River Festival in Louisville.

    Her birthday gift from me I got for her last May was also lost in that fire. As was her journal where she wrote her closest thoughts that she never let me read.

    I remember fondly when that apartment belonged to someone else, and the dance parties that happened there when I attended MSU (and interned at LEX 18). Live DJ, blacklights, tons of people having a good time.

    I went back to that apartment every night last Spring, shortly before she and I started dating, where she and I spent evenings rolling around on her exercise ball, playing an 80s rap tape she had found lying around. We had great times in that apartment.

    I housesat for her this past summer, when we both taught Upward Bound in Jackson. She's from Jackson and lived with family, and I watered her plants and cooked dinner in her kitchen when I came home each day. We always left the windows open to let in the sunlight and cool air, as that apartment was hotter than blazes in July.

    I've had lots of good memories in that apartment. Now, those are all that's left of it.

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