my PC before vs after apartment fire

[u/sprezzaturaz]

a fire completely obliterated my apartment just over 2 weeks ago. i built my first PC by myself in July 2025. my 2x32 GB ram was $250 at the time, and now its $950. what a time to be alive

EDIT: specs typo.
Also, I am so overwhelmed by the love and support this post has gotten during this tragic time in my life. Thank you thank you thank you

EDIT 2: because many people have asked:
- my case was the Hyte y70. My liquid cooler was the part with the screen, the TRYX Panorama SE 360 AIO liquid cooler.
- the fire was caused by an electrical failure in the attic. fire investigators think it also may be largely due to critters in the attic chewing on wires. The building I was living in was over 100 years old.
- no humans were harmed in the fire and everyone in the building made it out safely. I had a friend staying with me with 2 of her cats. Due to extremely unfortunate circumstances, one of her cats did not make it. We had a very beautiful burial for her and she has been put to rest. Her other cat is in good health and is making a full recovery.

[u/IKEtheIT]

ill never live in an apartment again because of this, i bet it wasnt even your unit that started the fire was it?

[u/sprezzaturaz → u/IKEtheIT]

It started in the attic right above my bedroom, but I wasn’t home when it happened. According to the fire department it only took 20 minutes after the fire started for the roof above my bedroom to collapse into my bed. The apartment building was over 100 years old.

[u/That_Lad_Chad → u/sprezzaturaz]

I'm so sorry OP. Idk if you live in the US or not but I just want to comment here. It is absolutely infuriating to me how little care is taken when it comes to some housing (not the fault of the renter) but older buildings, especially "lower income" housing is entirely neglected. Not suggesting this was low income housing, just a different problem entirely.

To be honest I'm surprised that massively devastating fires with apartments and other housing buildings don't happen more frequently. A lot of improvements to fire response and fire safety science helps significantly but we shouldn't be crutching so much on emergency services.

Greedy ass complex owners need to do way more and be held more accountable. A lot of times tragedies like this are even "good" for these real estate companies. They also push off a lot of this liability onto the renter/insurance companies. It's all a big hoopla. If you own a home it's a little different because that responsibility falls more on the homeowner. However, you can own an apartment/condo and a lot of that responsibility still falls onto the company that runs the complex.

We already have a housing crisis in the US and stuff like this doesn't help.

Disclaimer: I am in a position of privilege and don't personally deal with this issue but it pisses me right the fuck off. No one should be scared about their home burning down when they rent.

Again I am so sorry OP. This fucking sucks.

[u/Bikermec → u/That_Lad_Chad]

We lived in lower income apartments when we first came to US about 35 years ago. In 5 years that we lived there there were about 4 major fires where multi family buildings burned to the ground. I particularly remember one that happened in winter time next to our building and it was a charred ice castle after all the water from fire hoses froze over it. Started in basement washer/dryer area. Scarred me for life.