A view of the cleanup after yesterday’s early-morning fire on Dickson St. west of Patterson in Magnolia Grove, to the north of the High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. A single structure in a row of 31-year-old townhouses burned after what neighbors say was a large explosion.
- Firefighters: Body found in rubble of charred Houston townhome [KHOU]
- Man’s body found in Houston townhouse gutted in fire [Houston Chronicle]
- Body Found After 2-Alarm Fire [MyFox Houston]
Photo: Swamplot inbox
“To the north of The High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice” would be a better description. Thats our old amphitheatre in the background there.
Thanks, Gordon. We’ve corrected it.
Your report is the only one that gives the correct name of the neighborhood for this fire. Thank you from all residents of Magnolia Grove!
I live in a 1956 era condo with firewalls that extend through the roof. We saw how effective they were when we had a fire in our storage building. The blaze was contained between firewalls. Apartments built in the 1980s with common attic, on the other hand, go up like dry tinder.
More like the HS for turning thugs into law enforcement, tons of lively gang tags abound. Now in all seriousness, I hope the English gentleman who owned that killer 80’s lotus that wasn’t his home, or the good people I adopted my egyptian mau from (cat) they also lived right there. Hope no one was hurt, and that it wasn’t a drug lab or something…
It appears the firewalls in this structure did not extend through the roof line. Am I seeing that correctly? Were these firewalls more of the “fireboard” type instead of solid brick?
I’ll ride by there tonight after work, will report back.. I think they’re brick though.
I live right next door, I believe they were fireboard. His name was Ken, they believe it was suicide though. Tragedy.
Suicide? Very sad.
The firewalls did pretty good, but the two neighboring units look like they sustained severe damage. Something to consider when looking to buy a townhome.
Wow, was this a gas explosion? Tragic in any case..
In the end, an amazing job by the Houston Fire Department in containing the fire! We love our HFD and HPD!
The house wasn’t run on gas, but they said something about him bringing in gas bottles to fuel the fire..