Fires

After devastating fire, The Tavern is completely rebuilt in Old Louisville

Around 3:30a.m. on a Tuesday morning in July 2014, The Tavern, an Old Louisville watering hole, caught fire. The blaze was the work of...

Victorian Phoenix: How a group of neighbors joined forces to save...

The Dillon House on Second Street has been through hell and back. Over the past decade, the century-old house flooded, burned, and is now in...

Whiskey Row Fire ruled a construction accident as engineers assess the...

At the end of last week, an investigation into the devastating Whiskey Row Fire that took three hours and 80 firefighters to put out revealed...

Brown-Forman, developers vow to rebuild Whiskey Row after devastating fire

The city of Louisville collectively held its breath Monday afternoon and into the night as more than 80 firefighters battled to extinguish a major...

#LouCityReads: Is there an arson problem in Louisville? Here’s how the...

We hear about fires around Louisville pretty often on the local television news (or sometimes right here on Broken Sidewalk), but it's usually a...

Shotgun house fire in Russell believed to be arson, house’s future...

A camelback shotgun house burned Friday in the Russell neighborhood in what investigators believe was arson. According to reports on WDRB and WAVE3, the...

Lost Louisville: Ash Street Station Destroyed by Fire

Image: Photo of 800 Ash Street from circa 1910 (Courtesy Tammy Jones-Scrogham, color by Broken Sidewalk) Just after 9:00 on Saturday night, a massive fire tore...

Old Louisville Fire Leaves Historic House In Jeopardy

An evening fire on Sunday leaves an uncertain future for a massive brick house in Old Louisville. The smell of smoke still lingered on...

Former Highlands Just Fresh Now Freshly Toasted

Thanks to a tipster for sending in these photos of the fire at the vacant Just Fresh building on Bardstown Road taken about 6:30p...