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Gymnasium

The gym has been blackened by the fire.
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THOSE STUPID CEILING TILES NEVER STAY GLUED TO THE CEILING. THEY FALL OFF OF THE CEILINGS AT MY HIGH SCHOOL ALL THE TIME!
JAVA
Sat 07-23-2005
I really like this shot
KayD27
Mon 07-25-2005
For the longest time I couldn't figure out why this shot bugged me, then I realized...no bleachers. Are they behind you?
Valatiel
Wed 07-27-2005
There weren't any... community events were not held in here, the kids living in this particular building would probably rarely, if ever, have contact with anyone other than parents, staff, or each other.
Motts
Thu 07-28-2005
Wow. Gravity really took its corse here eah..?
jb
Tue 08-23-2005
I've hate tiled ceilings for the better part of 12 years now... was sitting in school one day and one fell on my desk while the teacher was talking. Just glad I wasn't doing any work, it would have likely landed on my head... Scared the living shit out of me anyways.
tim-bit
Tue 12-13-2005
Hehehe! I used to throw the wet wads of toilet paper at the ceiling in school! It was like cement!! Wonder who it is falling on these days! What a legacy, huh!?
Peaches
Tue 12-13-2005
Tim BIt- be lucky that tile missed you...some of us aren't so lucky. >.<
Poisonousxbeauty
Tue 01-03-2006
Motts, I really liked your pictures on your "about" page. Especially the one where your looking through the hole in the glass, cool beans.
anna
Tue 01-03-2006
Ceilings with tiles are pieces of shit. The ceiling tiles in my school gym always fall.That reminds me when these boys were playing basketball. One boy bounced the basketball hard as hell. The ball hit one of the tiles and the tile came falling to the floor. I think he slid the tile under one of those foldable bleachers.
Andy
Tue 01-24-2006
Speaking as a Firefighter, the blackening of the ceiling here shows that either the FD that worked this fire did an awesome vent job, which i doubt because of the lack of verticle ceiling cuts (holes cut to let flame heat and gase's escape) or the fire didnt burn long enough to heat up the room and was probubly extinguish rather fast either by the FD or security
Firefighter 40
Tue 02-14-2006
I believe one of these ceiling cuts you speak of helped aid in the ultimate demise of the environmental inspector killed at Byberry... I think the hole left uncovered had rotted out the metal staircase, which collapsed under the inspector as he started to descend it a mere 3 days after I was there to shoot this gallery http://www.opacity.us/gallery55.htm

I'm not insinuating that it was the fire department's fault by any means, it just jogged my memory there.
Motts
Tue 02-14-2006
oh wow - for a second I thought they were a bunch of old photo albums...man that would have been sweet....
Hovig
Tue 02-14-2006
I dont think that was the FD's fault. Not to sound defensive in the FD's stance but it is the building owners job to take care of securing the building after we leave. Was there roof cut in the gym? out of total curiosity. Because we're known to break out some windows and i only see the middle one broken. They took care of the place.
Firefighter 40
Fri 02-17-2006
why cut the roof when it is 1# weakened by fire.
2# Old and weak 3# that took out the window and more then like used FANS to vent. sorry to hear about some of the um crappy F.D.s in the world but here in VA we S.O.
fhsfiremanco1
Wed 07-19-2006
This picture gives me the creeps, reminds me of a marching army of beings, all gathered together....
lluulluu
Sat 11-18-2006
MMM Asbestos tiles!
Elanor
Tue 08-05-2008

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