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Fire at Universal Studios in California

Postby Sheenar » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:40 am

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Sad, but I'm just glad no one was harmed...
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:52 am

Yeah, I heard about this yesterday. The Back to the Future thing kinda made me feel like crying.
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Postby Sheenar » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:57 am

Me too. I was like, "Not the clock tower!" :waah!:
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Postby AsianBlossom » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:28 am

And the funny thing was they didn't specify on CNN this morning which Universal it was. I kept sitting there like, "Okay, that's sad, but where did this happen? Hello? You people..."

And now it occurs to me: where else would they keep the sets? XD

But still, that's a tragedy. Sort of a piece of history gone now, I guess...if you'd call it a piece of history.
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Postby Kurama » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:53 am

I almost spazzed. I thought it was the Uni that is down here. But I am still sad.
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Postby Fish and Chips » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:13 am

Man, the Back to the Future courthouse just does not catch a break, does it?
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:00 pm

Apparently not.

I wonder if people are going to start going around with cans and flyers and yelling "SAVE THE CLOCK TOWEERRRR".
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Postby bakura_fan » Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:49 pm

no! ;-; I was born in anaheim, raised in L.A.! This is horrible! *sniff* I didn't go to universal studios much (more of disneyland and knotts berry farm) but a piece of my childhood's gone now! :waah!:
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Postby AsianBlossom » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:59 pm

Kurama (post: 1232095) wrote:I almost spazzed. I thought it was the Uni that is down here. But I am still sad.


Same here...I was like, "Wait a minute...we were just there recently..." O_O

Actually, my dad told me that the set caught fire a few years ago too. You think something is going on with that set in particular?
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Postby ashfire » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:34 pm

Yeah! Johnny and Roy and the crew from Station 51 and the rest of the L. A. County Fire Dept couldn't stop it.
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Postby mechana2015 » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:43 pm

AsianBlossom (post: 1232221) wrote:S
Actually, my dad told me that the set caught fire a few years ago too. You think something is going on with that set in particular?

Could be as simple as 20+ year old wiring...

I think the big loss here actually may be the king kong attraction... it was a massive animatronics piece with lots of effects and was a big advertising piece for the park and the studio tour ride.
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Postby ashfire » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:06 pm

The fire was accidental. Workers using a blow torch to try to remove shingles from a building roof had done the work and then left. When they came back 30 minutes later everything was on fire.
It seems everytime someone uses a blow torch to heat something like pipes or make something easy to remove they set something on fire.
I have run many fires like that. Alot of them became multipale alarms.
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Postby joshua8416 » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:39 pm

what made me sad was that courthouse was not just from
Back to the Future it was also the courthouse from
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:28 am

All those televised land marks u_u

I'd be so mad if they came back with a follow up and say it wasn't caused by an accident >_>
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