SL19B On Fire!

The 19th Second Life birthday (SL19B) celebrations ended in disaster. Fire destroyed most of the Bay City exhibit.

Fire Starts

Security camera footage showed that the fire started at the Bay City exhibit. The fire spread around the exhibit like, wild fire setting ablaze all the regions. During the fire nobody was near yet some claim to have heard loud laughing in a high pitched voice running away.

Bay City Exhibition On Fire

The Bay City fire department (BCFD) was alarmed and scrambled to the struck place to save as much as possible.

BCFD Scrambles

The last footage of the security camera, before it melted, was a view of a red hot gear that appeared to be spinning.

Red Hot Gear

The Bay City police department (BCPD) managed to retrieve the, still hot, gear with a giant helicopter, for further investigations.

Gear Transported To Bay City

The analysis so far was inconclusive. It is possible that the gear wasn't oiled enough and spinned out of control. Sabotage as a cause can not be ruled out.

Analysis By The BCPD

The fire was mostly put out by the BCFD however the damage was beyond repair. All around regions crashed making recovery of exhibits near impossible.

The mayori (TINM) states 

"There was significant damage to the north (left hand) side of the structure, right above the wall discussing the Caledon Cold War. Aside from the obvious fire and other damage, everything seemed in place. We did not recover the "Caledon Cares" box, however, but I assume that may have been lost in the fire. We couldn't do much on site, as we had to disassemble the build and pack out. We did save this gear for examination, as it seemed relevant."

This newspaper will keep you up-to-date on further developments.  

Reporter Vick Forcella
Images Marianne McCann, Lucien Greybeard, TJ Hooker
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Lady Lost Found

The Bay City Hay Maze received special attention from the Bay City Fire Department (BCFD) for two reasons, to prevent a fire and, once a week, to search for lost people.

A few days after the Creepy Crawl message came from the organizers that one visitor didn't come home.

The BCFD, under leadership of Lucien Greybeard, went out in full force to search for the lost visitor.

They went around the outside of the maze and shouted hoping for a reply. From a distance one could hear a faint reply. (click on an image to see it enlarged)

The rescue workers immediately extended the boom of the fire truck and one volunteer went up to see the path of the maze and the origin of the sound.

Rescue workers entered the maze, oxygen, food and water with them. Under guidance from above they carefully manoeuvred through the maze leaving a rope behind them.

They found the young lady lost in the maze, dizzy, confused, tired and completely dehydrated. She mumbled something about breadcrumbs. After applying first aid she was taken out of the maze following the rope.

In an ambulance, sirens on, she was taken to an undisclosed location.

The BCFD did not reveal the name of the victim so we could not ask her about her ordeal and rescue.

The BCFD closed of the maze for being too dangerous.

While discussions were going on to make the maze safer for visitors the weather changed.

Pictures by Lucien Greybeard, used with permission. Please see more pictures from Lucien from it's Flickr page.

Reporter T.J.Hooker, Vick Forcella

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Hay Maze On Fire

Shortly after the rescue of the lost lady things developed very fast with the hay maze.

The sun is pounding down on Bay City

It is warm and dry

Suddenly the weather changes, it is dark

Clouds move in front of the sun

It is silent

BOOOOM!!!!

Oh No! A thunder sto.... BOOOM !!

No more!! Please! BOOOM!

LOOK! A fire is starting!!

The fire is growing bigger!

The fires are going out of control!

Quick! Somebody call somebody!

OOhh, this isn't good. Panic!

After the drought nothing can stop this

The fire is wading through the maze that can not resist

Fear in the eyes of the poor pumpkin

The Bay City Hay Maze 2019 is gone, up in flames

 

The next day, rain cleans up the last straws of the Hay Maze

Later we found out that the BCFD was in Bay City and Nova Albion busy to protect the buildings against the glowing tinder. They were well aware that the maze was up in flames but quickly estimated that it would be impossible to save the maze. Priority is safety of the citizens and protecting housing and properties.
Thank you BCFD!
Note: All pictures were taken directly from The Feed and resized. No post-edits were made.

Reporter Vick Forcella

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