Sure glad I checked the local headlines

[Gone in 60]

I mentioned in another thread about the unfortunate burning of one of our WW2 era Tustin Hangars, one of the most historic landmarks in the county and one of the largest wooden structures ever built. I’ve been riding to work through the haze of its smoke for the past few days. Turns out the area schools have been closed since the fire due to the amount of asbestos that was released into the smoky air. So we have that goin for us.

Just checked this evening and am reading about a massive pallet fire under the 10 freeway downtown on my commute route to the museum.
Glad I checked, as the freeway is closed until the extent of the damage is determined.

The 10 is an elevated freeway. I think it’s best depiction is a scene in the movie Point Blank, where Lee Marvin destroys a Chrysler Imperial by slamming it into the support columns under the freeway in an attempt to extract information from a mob informant. I’m sure that scene is on YouTube.

These days, the underside of the freeway is largely homeless camps and apparently a massive wooden pallet and crate storage yard. Reeeeaaaly good thinking to put combustible wood under one of the most heavily traveled freeways in the city.

At least I checked before visor down tomorrow morning and the expectation of a nice, quiet Sunday morning commute. Good thing there are other freeways to get me there that aren’t on fire.