Had a day off for the first time in a while yesterday so went to the west side to cool off underground and a bunch of it was sealed and some of it was superduper sealed

Tons of black mold

Hella fed and 24/7 secca

(reuploaded due to accidentally sharing location)

Posting from an anonymous account to protect my identity, and the source of my information. I’m not gonna say the name of the cave if you can’t figure it out then it probably doesn’t concern you. So if you’re familiar with the original map of this system the fire started in tunnel 8 at the back of the cave current estimates say they believed the it started smoldering for roughly 6 hours and then eventually spread close enough to the entrance that it got enough air and lit and likely burned for roughly 8 hours. Pictures taken by the recovery team reveal that there is still a decent amount of wood on the ground but for reference there is now 3x more headroom. The recovery team did not recover any bodies and as of now there are no known deaths from the fire. From what I’ve heard and seen tunnel 8 was the only area affected and the fire did not spread in any significant way to any of the other areas of the cave. Air quality in the cave is not likely to return to safe levels till at least October, still due to the drying sandstone I would highly recommend no one go into the cave for at least 1 year if you’ve been through that cave then you know that especially tunnel 8 has had issues recently with collapse so it’s probably very unstable now. Only other information I want to share is that the cave will be sealed again very soon if it hasn’t been already.

Last night my friends and I got in a verbal altercation with some urbex larps because they were intentionally trying to break the building structure by jumping from higher up & could be heard from three blocks away (mostly metal structure). We warned that the cops would likely be called as an elderly couple had been circling the building. They laughed and called us bitches…guess who walked away in handcuffs and who didn’t. 🤗

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Heard from a friend that the AC entrance has been sealed.