The warehouse where I rent shop space caught fire at 2pm. The Reynard, its trailer, the original Darth Vee, Johnny Billingsley's old Zink and my beloved 1968 AMX are all destroyed. Also gone are all the spares for the cars, and all my tools and support equipment. It could be worse. Steve Scheifler lost several rental Spec Miatas, an IMSA GTU RX-7, two race prepped Datsun 510's, a stock 510 which was his first car. He also lost a Dyna_Pak dyno. Other people lost a Van Deiman FF, and Lotus Europa and several antique cars.
The building is huge old cotton warehouse with 20 bays. Each bay is about 115' x 180'. I rented space in the third bay from the top of the pic.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/St...!4d-90.1994042 My space was just inside the east door.
The fire stated in Bay 4. Someone was welding on a car and set it on fire. The buildings extensive fire sprinkler system failed. The person attempted to push the burning car out the back of the bay through the overhead door on the west side of the building. He failed. He then called the fire department and told them the rear of the bay was on fire. Unfortunately, the fire hydrants are in front of the building so the fire trucks had to go to the front and the firefighters had to drag hoses through the building to the fire. They fought the fire in bay 4. There is speculation that if they let bay 4 burn while trying to prevent it from spreading bay, bays 5, 3, 2 and 1 might not have burned.
At least the blue solo vee and its trailer were are Solo Performance Specialties.
https://www.kmov.com/news/massive-wa...a3da77868.html If you go full screen on the smaller video you will see bay 3 full involved.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/lo...a-966fa91d3161