Crib Notes

A fire that ignited outside Atlanta’s Masquerade Music Park Saturday night has been extinguished, with no reported injuries. The fire did, however, destroy a storage space separate from the music venue.

Around 10 p.m., three Atlanta Fire Department engines responded to the venue’s open-air music park.

Witnesses said they walked outside to find plumes of smoke billowing from the the rear of the venue. Another witness standing in a nearby parking lot said he saw smoke as well. He said he walked to the rear of the venue and found flames had already engulfed trees and were spreading to nearby booths.

Firefighters managed to contain the blaze to a fenced-in area that stored portable toilets. All of those toilets — an estimated 20 — appeared to be destroyed.

The main venue, which tonight was hosting a punk rock showcase, was not impacted.

Firefighters did not immediately know what caused the fire. Witnesses said the blaze appeared to have started in the portable toilet storage area.

CL attempted to take a photo of the damage but was told by firefighters we were not appropriately dressed to enter the scene. You know, because of the contents of the burnt portable toilets and the fact that we were in sandals. Tessa from Drive a Faster Car has pics from Twitter of the blaze.

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The AJC reports that around 7 o’clock this morning the Georgia Theatre in downtown Athens was engulfed in flames.

“The Georgia Theatre, a converted cinema, has served as a music venue for many well known Athens bands, including REM and the B-52s.

Doc Eldridge, a former Athens mayor who is currently president of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, said he saw a huge plume of black smoke when he arrived at his nearby office at 7:10 a.m.

The theater was “fully engulfed, with flames coming out above the building,” Eldridge said.”

Continue Reading Georgia Theatre Fire in Athens.

(Photo by Todd Stephenson)

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Details are still coming in, but Decatur Metro reports that sometime this morning Trackside Tavern and the neighboring 5th Earl Market on College Ave. in Decatur were damaged by a fire. The extent of the damage is unconfirmed, but comments posted at Decatur Metro make sound like both businesses took a substantial hit.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

***Update***

Details regarding the fire that ravaged Trackside Tavern and appears to have caused some pretty substanital damage to 5th Earl Market as well remain to be determined.

In the meantime Atlanta resident Ali Laipple’s Facebook page features several photos of the damage to both the front and backsides of the building.

(Photo by Ali Laipple).

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