A 2-alarm fire severely damaged a popular bar and a duplex in the Marigny near the intersection of St. Claude Ave. and Frenchmen St.
The flames erupted around 12:23 a.m. at Melvin’s Bar on Tuesday (Dec. 3). The New Orleans Fire Department received a 911 call reporting a building on fire in the area. When the first NOFD Company arrived on the scene at 12:29 a.m., they found multiple buildings on fire.
A small wood-framed shed in the 2100 blk. of St. Claude Ave., connected to a tire shop which was completely engulfed, a two-story, wood-framed, duplex in the 1000 blk. of Frenchmen St., with thick black smoke and heavy flames coming from the rear of the structure, and a one-story wood framed bar at 2100 St. Claude Ave. with heavy fire at the rear.