Tustin Hangar Fire • Tuesday Morning

[@Knawledgevisuals]

was there this morning it was crazy all of tustin pulled up

[@uclajd]

I'm sure the developers are really bummed this will be open space now.

[@unclejack123]

I was at El Toro (VMT-103) in '64 - '65 (before moving to Yuma) we were surrounded by Orange Groves then ..... the airports were there first folks.

[@o-_-ojb]

Irvine Co. just “freeing” up some resources.

[@vinyltapelover]

The hangar was something to see when traveling along I-5. A few weeks ago, there was a PBS replay of a program call California Gold. Back in the late 90s, I believe, Huell Howser hosted it and did a 30 minute story of the the hangar and the few remaining buildings nearby. That hangar was huge inside. I'm sorry to see it burnt down. Quite frankly, I had the feeling that it wasn't going to be "if" but "when" it would cease to exist.

[@johnknapp952]

Those hangers where still around? Don't remember the last time I noticed them from the I5 freeway since Irvine started to get built up. The Marines that used Tustin and El Toro airbases are now at Camp Pendleton and MCAS Miramar in San Diego.

[@Knawledgevisuals]

yep they were still posted

[@alancranford3398]

The Navy moved from Miramar to Fallon, NV

[@baesmans3]

This is a sad end to such a historic structure. Not a conspiracy theorist, but it does seem fishy, developers have been falling all over themselves for years for this land...

[@bgjones973]

I was just saying this to my parents. My grandfather retired from the Marines at these hangers back in '71

[@NickW-xv1jg]

The irvine company started this fire

[@pax2758]

The carpetbaggers are salivating!

[@Misu.paper.dragons]

I saw it today and it was so burnt, I was really sad, huge part of history gone…But At least the other hanger is okay😢

[@jay_man4_20]

I hate to see this...I remember one of those when I was a kid at Moffet Field Naval Air Station by San Jose California where my dad was stationed...would always ask if he would drive by it when we were on base...went to a science fair there a few times in the early to mud 80s...to a kid it was just enormous and magical

[@Daddy-R]

Incredible

[@joser81]

By last night all that remained were the doors from this same vantage point. I put up a reel of a short video I took

[@Iamyu0707]

Saddening, can’t help but think they burned them to build more fucking over priced apartments.

[@theaviationphotographer61]

yup I agreeI find it hard to belive that a fire would randomly start at 3 in the morning especially since it is on such valuable land

[@uclajd]

Exactly, these can make it through WWII but suddenly catch on fire when there are no more spaces for development. I'd be investigating the shit out of this if I was OC Fire.

[@theaviationphotographer61]

@@uclajd yup

[@NickW-xv1jg]

Breaking news: arsonist employed by The Irvine Company has been detained for questioning by the local police.

[@GameWithGavin]

This is so sad to see all of that gone. I knew it was bad but I did not know that is was this bad. I hope it stop burning. Also, where are the firefighters?

[@MrMegaFredZeppelin]

Oh No😞It was a World War II era Blimp Hangar😢Such a Historic loss🙏🏻Do you know what caused it🤔Thank you for sharing👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻✌🏻

[@Starrydraws]

Right now we have nothing about how it was caused. my mom and I suspect there will be an investigation to find the cause of the fire and then release it to the public

[@NickW-xv1jg]

The crooked irvine company was the cause of the fire

[@donkoh5738]

Hopefully no top secret Billion dollar airship was under construction inside...

[@Knawledgevisuals]

good content mang

[@alancranford3398]

Was that Hangar #1 or #2? I trained there for several months during the mid-Seventies and I'm sad that one of the hangars is gone now.

[@Starrydraws]

Hangar #1. I went to go see it as it burned

[@alancranford3398]

@@StarrydrawsThanks. I'm sad that it's gone. Decades of neglect led to a firetrap--and there was the chance that the entire structure would collapse due to wood rot. I've seen it rain inside the hangars on a bright sunny day--the hangars were so large that they had weather patterns! This could have been the ignition source--spontaneous combustion. I'll have to keep tabs on Hangar One in the future after the fire department figures out the cause of that fire. It takes money to maintain buildings of any size. Those hangars are the size of mountains and would have taken a mountain of money to maintain. Even from I-5 the neglect was obvious--because there was no money.

[@fuji4202]

Sad day in Rustin in Tustin

[@Bottleworksnet]

No firefighters?

[@JCGoKingsGo]

They're there monitoring, and containing within itself, until it completely burns itself out and gone. Since it's a closed down military base, there are no active water sources on the base.

[@vinyltapelover]

@@JCGoKingsGo ".. there are no active water sources on the base." Just to piggy back on your thought, from what I heard on the radio(KFI) the closest water source, any type, was about 1000 feet( or was it 1000 yards??) away.

[@JCGoKingsGo]

@@vinyltapelover Yeah. From the neighboring residential area, close in proximity, but definitely a long distance to run a hose line for darn near anything, much less something as enormous as this

[@marsack7]

I had heard rumors of weekend rave parties there. Don't know if true. No more it looks like.

[@snapit420]

One of the largest wooden structures on the planet. How tragic. Let’s put up the nicest 17,500 capacity amphitheater because Irvine doesn’t want it anymore. We could name it the Tustin Hanger Amphitheater! Keep headline artists stopping in Orange County so we don’t have to drive to LA or San Diego! Hey Tustin, call Livenation!!!

[@tooManywaystoFall]

I hate that this happened - this hanger was directy behind my house in base housing, I was at El Toro, lived in Tustin housing took my kids over to ride on GoodYear Blimp... many memories of my time there

[@xKmotx]

😥😥😥

[@jenileekocal]

😢

[@MrBen527]

Bummer

[@trottermalone379]

OOOH NOOOOOO!

[@fromaggiovagiola9128]

Great! When are the new Condos going to be built? Asians love living on top of eachother!

[@uclajd]

Donald Bren ain't Asian dude. Neither are Five Point's board.

[@fromaggiovagiola9128]

Dude. You sound Ayshin.

[@uclajd]

@@fromaggiovagiola9128 You sound like a racist koont. I'm white.

[@theaviationphotographer61]

holy crap this is so sad to see this is just sad I was out there a couple months ago and so sad to see history go to waste

[@GameWithGavin]

I ride around there almost every day, really sad to see it gone

[@TristanMorrow]

:-(

[@sorryociffer]

Looks cgi