Hubig's Pies facility a total loss due to intense, five-alarm blaze
Source: wwltv.com
NEW ORLEANS - A five-alarm fire raged at the iconic Hubig's Pies facility Friday morning in the Faubourg Marigny, resulting in a total loss of the building, according to the New Orleans Fire Department.
The fire began around 4:28 a.m. at 2417 Dauphine St. Flames shot out of the back of the building, the area in which pie production occurs.
An employee noticed smoke coming out of the fryer room, where the fire is assumed to have started, according to the NOFD.
When they arrived on scene, firefighters were entering the building through a front garage, but this entrance collapsed around 5:30 a.m. as the fire spread towards the front.
Read more: http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/orleans/Intense-blaze-breaks-out-at-Hubigs-Pies-facility-163989366.html
This is a big deal in New Orleans.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)It ain't dere no mo'
mike dub
(541 posts)Hubig's are a Must-Eat any time my wife and I are at her family's property, down the bayou. Yummmy.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I am so sad to hear this. But I am so very glad to hear that they were able to contain it.
Losing the Faubourg Marigny would be a tragedy.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)The NOFD did a superb job containing it.
likesmountains 52
(4,098 posts)could have been lost.
Moltisanti
(33 posts)likesmountains 52
(4,098 posts)Good job NOLA FD.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)It was really crammed into a residential neighborhood.
And Welcome to DU!
hack89
(39,171 posts)crimson77
(305 posts)i get them mailed to my house.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)NOLA's mourning. But things have a way of rising up.
petronius
(26,603 posts)This is not the way I wanted to be reminded...
MountainLaurel
(10,271 posts)People are buying up all the Hubig's they can. Hell, the dog groomer was offering a free groom if someone could bring her a Hubig's pie, except for coconut.
bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)I have never heard of Hubigs but they had me at PIE. Sorry for your loss, all you who enjoyed Hubig's pies.
primavera
(5,191 posts)They're a local business and it's wonderful that consumers are loyal to their local businesses, but the pies themselves are no different than Hostess pies and are just as unpalatable. I am, of course, very sorry that they burned down, I just have a hard time appreciating the magnitude of peoples' grief and loss here in nola over such a mediocre product.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Moon Pies, and these Hubig pies, are A Tradition Dating Back Hundreds of Years. People ate them when they were kids, they have their kids eat them, their kids' kids are given them at birth. That Tradition Dating Back Hundreds of Years masks the fact that the pies themselves taste no different from the box they came in.
OTOH...if the Goo Goo Cluster factory burned down, THAT would be a tragedy.
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)I used to walk by it all the time. I am glad the fire didn't spread, but this is still a loss to NOLA.