BREAKING NEWS: Fire/Explosions at USH

[Galvan]

From CNN.COM:

More then 100 Los Angeles area firefirghters are battling a major fire in a backlot section of Universal Studios. There are also reports of explosions at the adjacent Universal Stuidos Hollywood themepark.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/01/studio.fire/index.html

[cycamps]

That's strange that a fire randomly started. I wonder if it was arson...

[bigb7965]

^i read somewhere that it started from a movie explosion

[RagingBull15]

Here's a good link about the fire.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 5136.story

[zjohn1988]

The king kong exhibit is completely gone

[superflybri]

^NOT KING KONG!

[Director_Guy]

This is terrible news as both a movie buff and theme park enthusiast. It got the Back to the Future set!! Noooo!

[Chitown]

Here is a press release from the park today. The courthouse which is the site for Back to the Future did not get damaged although it was close.

New York and King Kong are confirmed destroyed.

As you may have heard, there was a major fire early Sunday morning at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Fortunately, no NBC Universal employees were hurt, although some firefighters sustained minor injuries.

While the Universal Studios Hollywood and CityWalk were closed to the public on Sunday to allow firefighters appropriate access, the MTV Movie Awards were held as planned in the Gibson Amphitheater at CityWalk Sunday evening. The theme park and CityWalk will be open for normal operations Monday morning beginning at 10am.

The fire was contained to one section of the backlot. Unfortunately New York Street and the King Kong attraction were lost, but the iconic courthouse on Courthouse Square and half of the buildings facing the square were saved. Also affected was a video vault containing thousands of video and digital copies of films and TV shows. Although many of these items were lost, we believe that most, if not all, are replaceable. It is important to note as well that none of the 30 soundstages on the lot were damaged.

[rct2wizard360]

What's his face on screamscape made a really good point...

[quote='Screamscape'] As a another reader pointed out, it does seem odd that Kong was able to survive the 1990 fire due to the fire resistant nature of the building, which apparently includes impressive fire suppression systems to deal with all the pyro effects inside. And yet in 2008 it was all burnt to a crisp. Personally, before the blowtorch report I was starting to think that the fire may have originated from an explosion within Kong, which would have explained the damage, but apparently this was not the case.[/quote]

But I also don't know what those sets are made out of, but then what about Kong?

[zjohn1988]

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