Massive fire burns through historic hangar in Tustin

A massive fire ripped through a historic hangar at a former air base in Orange County Tuesday morning, prompting a large response from fire crews. MORE: abc7.com/tusti...

[@szsenyuk8887]

Kinda strange this happened, how long before new housing goes in there? 🤔🤫

[@CC-gb8wj]

Work in the area they are already building townhomes right by there .

[@NoblePrizeAuditor]

Irvine Company is in trouble with the state for not building enough affordable housing. Donald Bern sent a henchman over and committed arson.

[@dontcare9689]

Someone started that fire they wanted those hangers gone.

[@davidlopez2354]

Yes, there was talk about getting rid of one,,,

[@tomconley2458]

Wow, a sad day indeed. I was stationed there from 1978-1983. MCAS Tustin, HMH 361.

[@lightspeed845]

This was an act of arson. Done by developers to speed up the process of a large land grab. Look what happened to the base in San Diego. Great structure that had no purpose for years. At one point talk of a film soundstage but too much money needed to soundproof and put in sprinklers. Now no historical society can prevent them from bulldozing. Business as usual in America.

[@danielcarlson800]

BULLSEYE 🎯

[@NickKautz]

The only way to have this much certainty is to have done it yourself.

[@Knawledgevisuals]

wouldnt doubt it, def looks like it and locals think so too

[@NoblePrizeAuditor]

Irvine Company Donald Bern ruthless business owner. Would steal from his own mom.

[@nicholasadams4198]

My understanding is a demo company with a contract quit after one day, on this same hanger, at some point . They realized they had under bid the job. It would have been much more expensive to demo, plus asbestos abatement, etc. Now, it's a much smaller demo.. Let's see how fast the parcel is developed now.

[@flamingooc4367]

Probably real estate developers wanted to get their slimy greasy hands on this

[@christinaf8417]

Sadness. My family lived on this base for about 7 years in the 90s. So many childhood memories on that base including being in the car with my older sister while our dad taught her how to drive driving around that hangar, meeting at that hangar when he came home from wars, etc. It makes me feel like throwing up.

[@albatross8]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@danielcarlson800]

Greedy Real Estate Developers?

[@hopeweber6794]

Sad to see. Lived in Tustin for many years. These were landmarks.

[@Knawledgevisuals]

yep i shed a tear watching for sure

[@FrankGallagherr]

It was done on purpose by developers just like Maui

[@melbournechugging2999]

Large response ? Only see 2 fire trucks and no water

[@Knawledgevisuals]

hah

[@tomconley2458]

They’re letting it burn out

[@richp5321]

Rite!

[@harrycrannell7895]

Sad day. Was stationed at MCAS Tustin. 91-95

[@maintainingmomentum]

Was there in 97 till it Closed ! then went to El Toro , then Camp Pendleton.

[@chrisyarbrough785]

Arson they want that land bad.I used too go in that hangar all the time

[@kennethwilliams-dl9gi]

too dangerous to put out and not being used so a liability really. why so many units standing around, staging, and doing nothing? are they waiting for it to collapse and burn itself out, just to leave after doing very little work? investigators cant go in since unstable structure. how does a fire like this get started unless its homeless, vandals, arsonist, or recklessness? some places like this dont have good enough security.

[@sor3999]

Probably an inside job to clear the land and develop it. Pay someone to burn it down, look the other way. Avoids NIMBY protests.

[@user-vx1fg9gq7l]

I looked at those everyday for years outside my 11th floor Jamboree Center office. Sad!

[@gm2282]

Any idea how it started

[@daveaustin3161]

First went to MCAF in 1970 for a school. then was stationed there off and on from August of 1975 till August of 1983. Most of that in that hangar with HMM161.

[@alexanderleach3365]

That is sad to see.

[@maintainingmomentum]

100% ARSON !!!

[@danielcarlson800]

Yep!!!!!! 🎯

[@GamerChick5567]

I agree. Knowing how politics are in tustin and irvine. I think the only other logical explanation would be some damage they didn't catch from the hole in the roof eventually caused something to spark up. Someone on reddit also mentioned that they did a controlled burn somewhere in the brushes on the land there this week, could be that but that wouldn't make much sense as there wasn't much of a breeze yesterday.

[@Knawledgevisuals]

think so?

[@maintainingmomentum]

@@Knawledgevisuals Yes.

[@GamerChick5567]

So sad, woke up to this news, and it's ruining the whole day. Definitely a day in Tustin history. Hopefully they can put new safety measures in place on the south hangar.

[@lornajoven6275]

nah.

[@ROBERT-hz3nb]

EVERYONE STANDING BY.........SOMEONE CALL DUNKIN DONUTS AND HAVE THEM MAKE A DELIVERY ! ! ! PLAIN JELLY DONUT FOR ME........

[@christinaf8417]

Dunkin’ Donuts is right across the street in the shopping center by stater bros actually. That’s probably where they are

[@scotthugins7672]

Was a historic site, built during WWII - all wood. Here is the reality most likely. A developer wants to buy it and the politicians want to sell it. But, there’s one problem- there is a historic building there. What if a fire made it go away…… great idea Biff

[@NOHOLOCO]

I used to live in Tustin and I remember that large hangar for blimps- and they were going keep it as a site for historical importance- I think it would be too expensive to rebuild-- I don’t know-

[@Knawledgevisuals]

yep it was a historical landmark

[@christinaf8417]

They won’t rebuild it. They aren’t required to since it was damaged beyond 75% which makes it a total loss. How convenient that they let it burn to 75% so they could bypass the historical landmark rule to rebuild

[@FranklinLeib]

don't even see a fire truck in the picture. I see a command type unit there but that's about it. No hoses, no men nothing. Maybe they might need to defund the fire departments in the area. i understand that seems to be a thing on the west coast. if it be police, fire, ems, who cares, defund it. smh

[@user-bg3ef5ng6k]

what was in there

[@nrakma]

I remember back in the day when firemen would actually use wet stuff to put fires out. But I guess no more. Too bad, so I guess something good must have been on HBO.

[@SandDuneProperties]

HMH-466 late 90s :(

[@KevinBishop-z6r]

somebody just making way to build more real estate. So to see for sure

[@tuticobercini]

Making room for the new million dollar condos maybe? How sad to lose such beautiful landmarks with such valuable history!

[@AlistairKiwi]

Was this the hangar which housed zeppelins? I'm not seeing a lot of fire trucks gathered around to put out the blaze...

[@killua_7787]

Isn’t that like a old airship hangar

[@danielcarlson800]

Yes, 1940s-50s

[@JohnShinn1960]

What's burning? Somethings feeding the flames.

[@DARTHKNOWS76]

I saw the smoke this morning, coming in into work in Irvine, well I guess now they’re going sell the rest of the land to developers

[@Knawledgevisuals]

they letting it burn

[@kanyaphaksamuel]

How could the Tustin fire department let this happen? Why didn't other fire departments assist like Irvine? 😢

[@scotthugins7672]

Well, now that it’s gone, I guess we can sell the land to the developers…politicians get $ and another 50,000 people to cram into an already congested city.

[@stevenrobinson2381]

That blows. The old LTA hangar-piece of aviation history gone.

[@scottkaczor2065]

How better a way to get rid of a historic landmark like these blimp hangers than to have a fire where there's no working public water system available to to fight it! Walah! Prime Southern California real estate for sale!

[@omarnayef5779]

So sad, I hope the gov. spend more money for infrastructure, God bless SoCal. , God Bless America

[@richp5321]

Cheaper than paying to demolish it with all the hazardous materials.

[@ct1600a]

Oh no. :(

[@svfreespirit]

I used to live nearby and occasionally worked on the base……..the developers were chomping at the bit to get the real estate from both bases…..I predicted a fire would take the hangars out a long time ago.

[@anthonywood-s4u]

WAS IT A TERAST ACTED😢❤

[@Knawledgevisuals]

hahaha no

[@calescapee9642]

Terast🤣🤣🤣

[@lornajoven6275]

intentional....to build more condos &/or commercial place

[@coveredbridgeman4916]

was This one of The Hangers That The MythBusters used back in The 2000's ??

[@MrShobar]

Stage one in the developer's condo redevelopment plan. "Get rid of those white elephants".

[@gm2282]

Is that El Toro?

[@danielcarlson800]

Tustin

[@michaelstone3069]

Sad day indeed Well guess their gonna have build a housing tract there. I'm sure the developers will be crying as they're cashing all those checks.

[@Paiadakine]

Insurance - one way to get past historical landmark preservation requirements.

[@dcchavez97]

ARSON 🔥

[@FriendM2010]

This excuse of “flared up” is used by fire fighter’s to let it burn … It far easier to demo when burned to the ground than deconstruct half burned structures…. They do that in the city as well.. They slow walk response, use unsafe execuse among other reasons… Proving fire department intentionally slow walked response would be difficult and they know that.

[@Hanglow-qu4el]

I was born and raised in Tustin for 75 yrs I'm so sad 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jytvreal]

shame

[@nickraschke4737]

Oh no

[@andimilan5348]

Hamas unguided rocket?

[@andrewjohnston6841]

A waste having a video with no sound. Is the guy in the chopper mute?

[@ElonMuckX]

Poor guys, shift ends at 8am…………OT!!!

[@AllenMichael-pl6ps]

Google restores moffett field hanger..... Google can afford it. California and orange county can't afford to restore so cheapest way out is BURN IT. Good job LITTLE JOE Newsome.

[@albatross8]

Developers will be circling this like sharks 🦈!! 🤠💰💥