- Thread starter Chirimoya
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Pulpo Cojo on fire?
We live just down the beach and the whole building is gone. Military are keeping people a long ways from the fire at our side, which is good. We heard a big boom earlier, but didn't think much of it. Apparently a propane tank blew up in the kitchen. They have been clearing people out of the apartments next door as a precaution. We do truly hope that no one was hurt.
Wow, that's terrible news. We just returned from a three week stay and we went to El Pulpo Cojo everyday. I hope none of the employees or patrons were injured.
Any updates would be greatly appreciated. I have a few emails out to friends that are still in Punta Cana and frequent that area to see if perhaps they have additional input.
Sad news for sure!
Any updates would be greatly appreciated. I have a few emails out to friends that are still in Punta Cana and frequent that area to see if perhaps they have additional input.
Sad news for sure!
I was hearing lot of police and fireman alarms from home and was wondering what was happening, thinking something big as lot of noise and long time. I entered dr1.com expecting some news, and got them.
Really sad news, and if not very lucky day, I assume there should be injured people if it is true that a gas tank exploded ...
Lets hope Im wrong ...
Really sad news, and if not very lucky day, I assume there should be injured people if it is true that a gas tank exploded ...
Lets hope Im wrong ...
The condos next door (part if the Carabella resort) are on fire now as well. A fellow I know on the beach just told me the owner of the Pulpo is absolutely devastated and wanted to die in the fire. I can only imagine how he must be feeling. I was also told that they don't believe anyone was hurt seriously, so let's just pray it is true.
I was able to see all the trucks heading to the fire this afternoon, sirens blaring. I did see what looked like a water truck head that way well after the first few fire trucks went by. Maybe 1/2 an hour later?
The even pulled fire trucks from the airport! I was able to read the sides of them as they went by. They were about the 4th and/or 5th trucks I saw. Fire trucks continued to head that way even as late as 6 pm. I was wondering just how far away they were coming from. As I type I can hear another siren approaching... missed it, so don't know if it was coming or going.
Edited to add: I also saw ambulances heading that way off and on and now the sirens are heading the other way and they sound like ambulances and not the fire trucks.
The even pulled fire trucks from the airport! I was able to read the sides of them as they went by. They were about the 4th and/or 5th trucks I saw. Fire trucks continued to head that way even as late as 6 pm. I was wondering just how far away they were coming from. As I type I can hear another siren approaching... missed it, so don't know if it was coming or going.
Edited to add: I also saw ambulances heading that way off and on and now the sirens are heading the other way and they sound like ambulances and not the fire trucks.
We walked down that way on the beach just now and watched the firefighters fumbling with a pump and hose down at the edge of the ocean. Other people were using buckets to throw water at the fire on the condos. It was a exercise in futility. Now it's getting dark it's going to become even harder. I do hope that the firetrucks you heard, agw, were heading TO the fire. We are still hearing sirens ourselves and are hoping those trucks contain water. This is going to be a long night for some of them I'm sure.
that's crap that the firetrucks showed up over 2hrs late and without water.
they've been there when we saw the smoke from the beach, so they've been quick, but when Cana constructions start to burn it runs too quick to do anything else than to run anyways.
no news about injured or dead people, that's good news.
part of the Carabela is also effected.
Mike
they've been there when we saw the smoke from the beach, so they've been quick, but when Cana constructions start to burn it runs too quick to do anything else than to run anyways.
no news about injured or dead people, that's good news.
part of the Carabela is also effected.
Mike
Good hear that nobody got injured; it also reminds me that I did the right thing when I took property insurance...
I first heard and saw the fire trucks at the IFA Villas Bavaro and Residential Costa Bavaro intersection at about 4 pm. If they had come on the other road and then down from Frusia before that I wouldn't have heard or seen them. I can just see that road from my house through the abandoned building and trees.
I agree Mike...the firetrucks were actually there quite fast considering. The fire was so big and intense they probably ran out of water quickly, and were trying so hard to set up a pump station at the ocean edge to fight the fire at the condos on Carabela property ? The people down there were working so hard to try to contain this fire. Most important is that no one is injured or has died. Keep praying that's true.