[CPEO-MEF] (NON)-PRESERVATION, REUSE: Navy sends $1 million to Tustin, CA for hangar cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy gives $1 million to start historic hangar fire clean-up in Southern California

By GARY WARNER  
STARS AND STRIPES 
November 17, 2023

The Navy has sent $1 million to the city of Tustin, Calif., to jump-start clean-up of the fire that destroyed a World War II blimp hangar on a former military air station.

“Demolition is the plan, but it’s not scheduled yet. We have to find out the best way to get this done,” said Christopher Dunne, spokesman for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Washington, D.C.

A fire broke out Nov. 7 at Hangar 1, one of a pair of 17-story tall wooden hangars on the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, which closed in 1999.

Built at the outbreak of World War II, the hangars housed blimps that patrolled the coast looking for Japanese submarines. They remained on the base as it transitioned over the decades to a helicopter air station of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. When the base closed, the Navy conveyed 1,300 acres to local governments for housing, businesses and a large public park.

The Navy retained 225 acres that included the hangars until an agreement could be reached on their future use. Nearly three decades later, no plan has won approval from federal and local governments.



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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-11-17/navy-tustin-hangar-fire-clean-up-12086230.html

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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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