The Disasters of Madrid NM

I am still working on the upcoming posts, including more excerpts from Jerry Dimas's memoirs about growing up in Madrid -- but I thought I'd let you know about a new album on the side bar "Madrid NM Disasters." In 1925 Madrid had one hell of a flood -- washed up the mines. And it suffered numerous fires. The fire (above) on main street started when some enterprising soul decided to heat up the frozen pipes with a blowtorch. Water was scarce in Madrid so the solution to stopping a fire was using dynamite to explode the building -- counting on the blast to suck up all the oxygen and starve the flames. The photo below is of a house undergoing such a drastic treatment. It's a wonder that the photographer was able to capture that moment.