The last thing this New Jersey town needed was any proximity at all to yet another disaster with casino revenues already largely in the toilet for the majority of Atlantic City’s land casinos, and the gambling town still recovering from last year’s devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy which shut down many of the city’s casinos for days. And with last week’s horrific Boardwalk fire in the Seaside Heights area not directly attached to AC, but along the same 217-mile stretch of Atlantic shoreline that is frequented by most of the same tourists and locals one can’t help but wonder if Atlantic City may also need an exorcist or even to put blood on its casino walls for the passover for the evidently ongoing plagues which are being doled out of on high.

Or perhaps, wooden boardwalks while charming when built 150 years ago are merely not really a safe building material within the world that is modern. Fire specialists are, in fact, now saying the fire that is destructive to have been a bout of arson, although the motivation is unclear.

More Damage after Sandy

Nj-new jersey’s Governor Chris Christie, upon visiting the fire scene that destroyed many boardwalk structures, referred to it as an ‘unthinkable situation’. It took a lot more than 400 firefighters and 35 motor organizations to finally extinguish the raging inferno. The harm stretched over six blocks and 20 businesses many just rebuilt from the Sandy disaster had been destroyed. While no casinos were affected, one can’t assist but assume this will perhaps not do anything to simply help Atlantic City’s ailing profits.

Following Sandy during which the Jet that is world-famous Star coaster was torn and tossed to the ocean’s water by the extreme storm the FunTown Pier on which it rested had finally reopened for business come early july. Those repairs cost Seaside Heights most famous because the hangout for the infamous TV ‘Jersey Shore’ crowd $8 million for boardwalk repairs and a total of $16 million for many the damage done to Seaside Heights, according to the city’s mayor, Bill Akers.

In 2012, the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast staged a fundraiser to help rebuild the boardwalk following Sandy with the inevitable MTV live event from Times Square.

The fire evidently started in a frozen custard shop on a weekday afternoon, and had become a six-alarm incendiary event by two hours later, impacting the entire FunTown Amusement Pier.

Boardwalk Fires in Atlantic City Popular

The fire had been just one of many that the Atlantic that is numerous City have succumbed to in just yesteryear 20 or so years. Because of the old wooden slats that comprise the boardwalks, the flames easily spread, making one wonder whether or not it’s time to rebuild these walkways with a perhaps less charming, but more durable, substance.

In reality, an intense blaze straight back in June 2007 destroyed five stores along the Atlantic City Boardwalk and even damaged the newest Jersey Casino Control Commission’s head office.

5 years before that, an Atlantic City fire destroyed two coastline patrol garden storage sheds, forcing the closing of the stretch that is three-block of boardwalk.

The underside of most gambling towns are numerous homeless, frequently drug-addicted people, who literally take to living ‘underground’: in cases like this, Atlantic City officials say boardwalk fires inside their city have frequently been caused by homeless people residing under the panels, who start fires to help keep by themselves warm at evening or even to cook food.

Regardless of the many fires, the iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk has survived for very nearly 150 years, and is, of course, the motivation for the classic board game, Monopoly. Whenever it went up in June 1870, the AC Boardwalk was one of the first of its type in America.