Iconic SoCal Blimp Hangar Burns

Originally built in 1942 as a Marine Corps Air Station, the Tustin Hangar grew to become a historically significant piece of Orange County. At 17-stories high, more than 1000-feet long, and 300-feet wide, this was one of the largest wooden structures in the world. Firefighters responded to a three alarm fire at the Tustin site around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, and arrived with the building still visually largely intact. When one of the world’s largest wooden structures begins to burn, however, there isn’t much that can be done but contain the blaze.

After fighting the fire for more than three hours with trucks and helicopters, the team on site determined the safest thing to do was to allow the building to collapse and send in a ground team to finish the extinguishing of the blaze. With this large of a structure and giant wooden trusses, it wouldn’t have been safe to enter the structure and try to fight the fire from inside. Thankfully the building was empty and nobody was hurt in the process of its destruction.

Read more

• Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle

• The 25 worst cover songs of all time, ranked

• New Mass Effect Teasers Finally Confirm What We’ve All Been Guessing [Update]

• The 25 best cover songs of all time, ranked

• Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer Reveal Everyone's Waiting For Officially Happening In December

The cause of the fire has not been announced, and is still under investigation.

More from Jalopnik

• The Marvels' First Reactions Are Here, and All Over the Place

• 10 years later, it's almost quaint to think of Thor: The Dark World as the MCU's nadir

• 20 Years Ago Today, Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars Changed Star Wars Forever

• 22 House Democrats Join GOP to Censure Rashida Tlaib Over Israel Criticism

• RoboCop: Rogue City: The Kotaku Review

Sign up for Jalopnik's Newsletter. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Click here to read the full article.