#1951263 - 06/01/08 07:13 AM
OT - MASSIVE fire at Universal Studios in Hollywood!
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miroslav
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WOW! 
Anyone else checking out the news coverage of the ongoing fire?
Last time I saw smoke like that was when the Exxon refinery went up in Elizabeth, NJ back in the early 70's!
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#1951265 - 06/01/08 07:14 AM
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Yeah, I'm watching that now.
They also said that some film archives are there.
Do you think they're going up in smoke or they're in fire safe places?
Helluva fire.
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#1951274 - 06/01/08 07:21 AM
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Just finding out now from you!
No injuries so far - that's good.
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#1951277 - 06/01/08 07:26 AM
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Yes...they have said a few times that miraculously, no one was caught in it up to this point.
Boy...must be some serious history there going up in flames! 
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#1951290 - 06/01/08 07:55 AM
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I can see the smoke plume from my balcony.
Sets can be rebuilt, but it's tragic to think what history might have been in that film vault. The smoke is getting a bit grayer, less thickly black, so I hope they have a handle on it.
Scott Fraser
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#1951297 - 06/01/08 08:13 AM
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The last sound byte I caught...I thought they said the old film vaults were NOT yet involved in the fire...but getting close...
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#1951300 - 06/01/08 08:18 AM
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I just filmed on New York street a couple weeks ago. I was there for a week. Because I had to drill into the structures and rig to them I had noticed how dry it was. Supposedly NY Street is gone...hopefully we don't need to do reshoots! We blew up a car there.
I this fire got around any Special EFX stuff that could maybe account for the explosions.
I applied for a job at the film vault about 12 years ago. I would imagine that the real blockbuster gems are stored elsewhere but I could be wrong. It may be old B movies and stuff....like I say not sure about that.
Film that is archived is usually stored in climate controlled vaults, these would be modern structures I am sure, steel and concrete surely.
I seem to recall the vault building I went to years ago at Uni was a modern structure. The backlot is old and there is a lot of wood.
This is a real shame, glad no injuries so far.
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#1951315 - 06/01/08 08:54 AM
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Hopefully they will be able to quickly/fully recover from this disaster, so that it doesn't seriously impact the movie-making livelihood of all the different crews that use those lots/buildings.
They said that most of those buildings were very old, and made from heavy lumber...which is what accounts for the huge flames (along with whatever chemicals where in the buildings).
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#1951374 - 06/01/08 10:39 AM
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I can't believe they're going to open the park at noon after all the warnings about the hazardous fumes & smoke. Then again,as a former USH employee who was there for 11 years(crowd controller) and was there for the '89 fire as well as the Northridge quake,I can believe it. God forbid they lose $ for a day.......
I'm really bummed at all the history lost...that's such a shame~I loved the Back to the Future Courthouse area and was there for a couple of special events. It was just cool to be where Hollywood history happened....One of the Employee Christmas Parties was held at night on the lower lot & that was fun-fake snow & everything!
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#1951430 - 06/01/08 01:02 PM
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but everything in it (according to Universal sources) has duplicates stored elsewhere. I hope that's true.
I would bet that. I thought there was a way deep underground vault somewhere in another state where this stuff was stored. It is so valuable no way it was kept in a facility that would burn down in two seconds.
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