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There's a 4-alarm fire on Lower Greenville. Started at Terili's Restaurant and spread to the Hurricane Restaurant, Greenville Ave. Bar and Grill and Mick's. For those who can't picture where this is, the Dubliner, the Grape, St. Martin's are across the street to the east, Blue Goose is across from the Hurricane to the north. This is terrible.

Seem to be a lot of restaurant fires lately....

I am sure the insurance companies will be throughly looking into this....

Standing on the corner at 6:15 this morning watching my locals burn was devastating.

How many Greenville fires over the years. Stans Blue Note burned down twice-did the Blue Goose burn once? (once Stan's Blue Note suspiciously burned down 3 days after owner John Caulfield "accidentally" shot and killed his girlfriend). The area further South where I believe San Francisco Rose used to be burned down. And I know the Arcadia burned. There have been more fires further South. jtstang lives or used to live in the area-could be a little firebug. Gonna be a messy St Patrick's Day.

John Caulfield. And I still live within 150 feet of this morning's fire and was doing firewatch to make sure no embers landed on my roof. No firebug here.

this is sad. I used to live on Llano for my senior year and a victory lap. spent many a night at GBG back in those days. $2 Tuesdays.

damn I'm getting old-good catch jtstang-and I apologize to anyone named John Colburn. So what time are we all going over to jtstang's house for the St. Patrick's Day Parade-great place to take a [deleted] and not have to wait in line.

It's $2 a [deleted], or $15 for an all-day [deleted] pass.

sounds like a golden shower party

how much to water the lawn?

Terilli's burned once before a number of years ago, but that fire was pretty well contained. This one spread like a wild fire. The sad thing is that the building itself has been there forever and I would think it is pretty iffy whether or not they can save it. There isn't much left to hold the walls up any more and they may have to demolish them from a safety stand point. Hope not.

very sad indeed

jtstang wrote:John Caulfield. And I still live within 150 feet of this morning's fire and was doing firewatch to make sure no embers landed on my roof. No firebug here.

jt, I'm just north of you on Monticello. Sounded like the world was coming to an end this morning with the sirens and helicopters. Very sad day for all of us in the neighborhood. GBG was still a frequent stop for me.

I woke up at 5:45 to the sirens, and didn't think much of it. When the first helicopter arrived and was hovering over my house at 6:00, I knew something was up.

PK, I'm sad to say I think it's gonna be a total loss. That building was built in 1926.

My mother lives 3 blocks down on Goodwin, where I grew up. I happened to find out about the fire while listening to the traffic report on Sirius and when they said "a fire at the intersection of Greenville and Goodwin," I called my mom. She was clearly far enough away from the blaze and she's ok but it makes me sad to know that a part of our neighborhood is now gone. Honestly, didn't care much for Terilli's but I loved going to lunch at the GBG as a kid and having a burger and fries with my mom and dad. Just glad that no one got hurt.