OTR fire - Smitty's

Early Wednesday morning the OTR community woke up to find that a 84 year old friend had been lost to fire. Smitty's, on the 1400th block of Vine, caught fire around 3:30am and the ensuing fire consumed three adjacent buildings. When finally brought under control all four structures look to be a total loss.

Over the Rhine is our new home and I was able to make it over to the site of the fire around noon and shot a few pics. The fire department was wrapping up their operations around then and from my pics you can get somewhat of a feel of the damage - I was unable to get around back, but if you check out The Boilover you can see the full extent of the damage in the rear of the buildings, which is already collapsing.

To get a real feel for the loss read the Cincinnati.com article about Smitty's and the owners reactions to the fire.

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