[CPEO-MEF] ASBESTOS, (NON)-PRESERVATION: "Tustin [CA] hangar fire: Closed schools to be tested; as fire flares, crews try not to make air worse"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tustin hangar fire: Closed schools to be tested; as fire flares, crews try not to make air worse

BY SEEMA MEHTA, JACK DOLAN
Los Angeles Times (CA)
November 12, 2023

All schools in Tustin will be closed Monday as facilities are cleaned of debris possibly contaminated with asbestos from the massive fire that destroyed a former military hangar, according to the Tustin Police Department. 

In addition, an environmental consulting firm has been retained, the school district says, to test all schools for contamination stemming from the fire. 

Over the weekend the fire reignited at the World War II-era hangar and had not been extinguished as of Sunday evening.

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The north hangar was one of two enormous structures on the property, 17 stories high, 1,000 feet long and 300 feet wide, that were used by the military during World War II and later served as sets for the TV show “Star Trek” and the film “Pearl Harbor.” It was the largest wooden structure in the world, Coe said.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-11/massive-tustin-hangar-reignites

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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