The last thing this New Jersey town needed was any proximity at all to yet another disaster with casino revenues already largely in the toilet for the majority of Atlantic City’s land casinos, and the gambling town still recovering from last year’s devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy which shut down many of the city’s casinos for days. And with last week’s horrific Boardwalk fire in the Seaside Heights area maybe not directly attached to AC, but along the same 217-mile stretch of Atlantic shoreline that is frequented by most same tourists and locals one can’t help but wonder if Atlantic City may likewise require an exorcist or even to put blood on its casino walls for a passover of this apparently ongoing plagues which can be being doled out from on high.

Or maybe, wooden boardwalks while charming whenever built 150 years ago are simply not a safe building material into the world that is modern. Fire experts are, in fact, now saying the destructive fire appears to possess been a bout of arson, though the inspiration is unclear.

More Damage after Sandy

Nj-new jersey’s Governor Chris Christie, upon visiting the fire scene that destroyed many boardwalk buildings, referred to it as an ‘unthinkable situation’. It took a lot more than 400 firefighters and 35 motor organizations to extinguish the raging finally inferno. The harm stretched over six blocks and 20 businesses many just rebuilt from the Sandy tragedy were destroyed. While no casinos had been affected, one can’t help but assume this will perhaps not do anything to simply help Atlantic City’s ailing revenues.

Following Sandy during which the world-famous Jet celebrity roller coaster was torn and tossed to the ocean’s water by the extreme storm the FunTown Pier on which it rested had finally reopened for business come july 1st. Those repairs cost Seaside Heights most famous because the hangout for the infamous TV ‘Jersey Shore’ crowd $8 million for boardwalk repairs and a total of $16 million for all the damage done to Seaside Heights, based on the city’s mayor, Bill Akers.

In 2012, the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast staged a fundraiser to help rebuild the boardwalk Sandy that is following with inevitable MTV live event from Times Square.

The fire apparently were only available in a custard that is frozen for a weekday afternoon, and had become a six-alarm incendiary event by two hours later, affecting the entire FunTown Amusement Pier.

Boardwalk Fires in Atlantic City Common

The fire was just one of many that the numerous Atlantic City area-boardwalks have succumbed to in only the last 20 or so years. The flames easily spread, making one wonder if it’s time to rebuild these walkways with a perhaps less charming, but more durable, substance because of the old wooden slats that comprise the boardwalks.

In reality, a blaze that is intense in June 2007 destroyed five stores along the Atlantic City Boardwalk and also damaged the latest Jersey Casino Control Commission’s headquarters.

5 years before that, an Atlantic City fire destroyed two beach patrol storage sheds, forcing the closure of the three-block stretch of the boardwalk.

The lower of most gambling towns are many homeless, frequently drug-addicted people, who literally take to living ‘underground’: in cases like this, Atlantic City officials say boardwalk fires within their city have actually frequently been due to homeless individuals living beneath the boards, who start fires to keep themselves warm at evening or to cook food.

The iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk has survived for almost 150 years, and is, of course, the inspiration for the classic board game, Monopoly despite the many fires. When it went up in June 1870, the AC Boardwalk was among the first of its type in America.