V. Scotti Building, Pittsburgh (Collier), Pennsylvania, USA
'This is the building’s front facade. The staircase in the foyer led to the offices, which were arbitrarily tacked on top of garages in the rear. Through the window on the left, you can see some of the destruction within.' 
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(87 votes)
Published: Feb 19, 2006 12:27 a.m.
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It wasn’t the World Trade Center, and nobody was killed, but several businesses were displaced by a spectacular fire at the Scotti Building. You can see that the building began its life as a repair garage for large trucks. Sometime in the 1980s, Victor Scotti acquired the building. The garage space was divided and rented as warehouse / light industral space. The original roof was removed, and office space was added on top. Im told that Victor Scotti was depressed over some matter, and killed himself years ago. Several absentee landlords came and went over the years, each of them leaving the Scotti Building in worse shape than they found it.
No, there weren’t any sprinklers. Fire investigators think the blaze started in the middle of the building in a heater. When I arrived, tenants were salvaging anything they could, and workers were boarding over the openings. Representatives from the local government were there with the tenants, prodding them to move along quickly with the salvaging and insurance matters, as they wanted to raze the remainder of the building as soon as possible. The whole place smelled of a big campfire. Already, scavengers were looking for scrap metal to steal. Some asshole posted an sign advertising warehouse rental space.
I thought for sure they’d simply bulldoze the remainder of the building and collect the insurance payoff, never to return, as did the seafood processors on the Louisiana coast did after Katrina. But I cruised by in late 2005. The middle portion of the building, which was burned the worst, was bulldozed out of the way. The two ends of the building now stand as separate entities, which workers were busily restoring. Who’d have thought? |
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| Feb 19, 2006 9:00 am -
Interesting-- have you ever checked out any of the extensive video footage from when that guy went nuts and destroyed the town of Granby Colorado in a homemade tank? Bet you’d like it! :D |
 | Feb 19, 2006 9:46 am -
Interesting stuff. 5* |
 | Feb 19, 2006 7:05 pm - Nothing interesting happens?
I recall an incident in a little shitsplat town near here, when the town’s fire hall burned down, along with their pumper truck.
Many small towns have all-volunteer firefighters, since they can’t afford to pay them. Then, they sometimes hire 18-year-old volunteers who harbor an unhealthy fascination with fire, and are later arrested for setting the very fires that they and the rest of the volunteer firefighters have to put out. That’s kind of interesting. |
 | F b 19, 2006 7:53 pm -
I like your random ass stories. Pretty interesting, I like the one of the collapsing building the best though. 5 stars old chap! |
 | Feb 20, 2006 7:25 pm -
Cool stuff. Nothing really interesting ever happens in my neighborhood either. So stories like this keep me somewhat not as bored. 3. |
 | May 08, 2006 4:51 pm -
Cool 5* |
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