Massive fires turn into social media explosion
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Posted: 12/07/2010
Baltimore has seen two massive fires in the city in just a matter of hours, and websites like Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook lit up with comments, pictures, and video from the fire scenes.
YouTube fans across the city quickly started uploading video of Monday's fire that tore through a building on "The Block." If you search for Baltiomre Fire in YouTube, then filter the results by upload date you'll see dozens of results.
Here's on video uploaded by YouTube user supermauerbros .
The video shows smoke pouring out of the building in the 400 block of East Baltimore Street.
The twitter crowd also went to work using the hashtag #baltimorefire. Within minutes pictures and video exploded across computers, iPhones, Androids, and television screens across Baltimore.
The abc2news.com webteam quickly put together this slideshow of the "Block" fire using many images emailed in from people using smartphones, and social networks to share them .
Tuesday afternoon ATF agents showed up at the scene of Monday's fire to help city fire investigators look for the cause. ( READ MORE )
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