fire in parkchester

Jabber IM with MK 7/17/08 9: 31 AM
MK: Were you affected at all by the fire in Parkchester this morning?
killstead: mmm... no
killstead: so that's what i smelled last night
killstead: when i went to bed i smelled smoke, so I checked the entire house
killstead: i looked out the windows, but didn't see anything, so i went to bed
killstead: didn't hear of the fire until u
MK: Oh it was the headline story on NY1 this morning
MK: http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=83853
9: 37 AM
killstead: it was *not around 2 in the morning
killstead: i went to bed around 1:30
MK: On TV it looked like it carried through to the morning
killstead: but i did not see any smoke or fire looking out the windows
killstead: damn.. now i'm sorry i didn't call
killstead: i thought about it
MK: Or maybe that was just cause some woman went back to bed during the fires and walked out of the building when all the news stations were there
Its hard to tell
MK: when you can't see anything someone else is probably closer and has a better idea of it they should call
killstead: that was a six-story bldg; i'm on a 13-story bldg
MK: You must have been pretty far from it
killstead: well if you smell the smoke you're close enough
MK: True
killstead: but if you're close enough to *see the fire, you DEFINITELY smell it
killstead: "fire was reported at 1:20am" Parkchester Fire Leaves Dozens Homeless
killstead: wcbs
killstead: oh, that's not Parkchester condo
killstead: it's Parkchester neighborhood, but not the condo.. there are no fire escapes in Parkchester
MK: Do you have a back stairway for fires?
different fire code..
killstead: two internal staircases
MK: That's better for tall buildings
killstead: these are buildings from the '40s, are subject to different fire code..
MK: They have that in the Silver Towers
MK: I figured cause they were so tall
killstead: Stuyvesant town / peter cooper village was developed by same developer and at the same time as parkchester (and with same purpose, house some of the WWII veterans & their families)
killstead: the building material can "contain" fires more..