We had a long talk with the owner of the Chocolate Chicken which is located across the street of the
It was a hot day at 90 degrees when at 11:30AM someone reported smoke upstairs in the living area and an office where the owners ran 6 other businesses. They ran upstairs with a fire extinguisher but it was already too late.
Employees the rushed upstairs as the fire departments started arriving. People were throwing boxes and filing cabinets out the windows trying to save the records for other 6 other businesses.
Every Fire Department in Door County (unconfirmed) arrived for the next half hour creating a domino effect as Green Bay and other stations in the area were called in to cover for the Door County engines.
Over 100 fighters were on hand as teams were sent in but the house was so old with so many additions and hallways and tiny rooms it was a nightmare and like a puzzle and getting lost was a worry.
14 fire fighters were injured with dehydration and heat stroke with 3 being med vac'd to Green Bay.
After two and a half hours they decided to not risk lives and blew the horns of the trucks signifying no more ventures inside. Let it burn. Too dangerous. keep the outside controlled
Meanwhile at the Chocolate Chicken the ice cream shop air conditioners were turned off in the sweltering heat and things were melting. Pictures were coming unglued and dropping to the floor.
The brew system in the basement was saved along with a LOT of beer. Also found were hidden rooms filled with old whisky (unconfirmed). The fire never reached the ground floor but the water did. 3 feet of it.
The final result is they will rebuild and the plan is to be open in the spring. The issue is that the new building cannot be grandfathered in and new ordinances and set backs will change the look and feel.
This will actually help The Chicken as they will be more visible. With the 2 biggest weekends of the summer coming this and next weekend (it's NUTS, over 200,000 people in Egg Harbor alone) they are gearing up for a busy few weeks, espicially with so many people looking at the former site.
It was a slow season in Door as Chicago schools let out the 3rd week of June and then went back the last week of August. This bad because Door County loses all their employees and are covered with kids from Slovakia this year. Door County tourism is all about Chicago (a crap load of Cub fans).
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In other random news
Looks like one of the actual ADULTS running the country and keeping us out of nuclear is getting canned today.
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Puerto Rico bonds fell 31% after the President said The US will wipe out all of Puerto Rico's debt. Then the budget director TRIED to walk back that statement.
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Netflix is hiking the subscription rate up a dollar.
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54% of republicans now say homosexuality should be accepted in today's society. WOW! this is a victory?
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A friend of mine works in the butter industry. Grassland Dairy Products makes 1/3 of all butter in the US and butter sales look to be 10% greater then last year. I think it's all from deep fat fried butter (a real thing) and fairs.
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GOOD GOD - Not ANOTHER snow mobile trail controversy in Columbus! 5 years in a row? COME ON!! We have spent more time on snow mobiles then the trails have been open. All this for 2 freaking weeks a year? What a freaking waste of time.
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same shot, same date, 2 years apart. Global Warming?
Have a rainy weekend . . .well, Saturday will be all rain. Sunday AWESOME - don't get used to it.
