The Firebirds
June 9th, 2006Mark Folse has written an article called The Firebirds which you all should read. On Wednesday a similar sight as two Blackhawk helicopters in civilian livery of some sort, shuttled over the French Quarter, to the Mississippi, and in the direction of the Treme. It appears that is was a [fire on N Rampart].
Empty cities tend to burn. This was the experience of Detroit, Michigan which would burn for the foreign press, annually on [Devil's Night].
Flood damaged wires, squatters cooking on open flame, or arson; the threat of a sweeping fire in the dense, wood-structured neighborhoods of New Orleans is intense.
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