The Boeing 737 Max 9 airplane that made an emergency landing last month after its door plug blew out in midair was missing four bolts that would have prevented the panel from moving upward, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. As part of the NTSB’s […] Read More
Navy officials announced this week that a $6-million contract has been awarded to an environmental cleanup firm to remove the debris that were released when an historic 17-story hangar in the city of Tustin caught fire. There is no start date yet for the work awarded to ECC Environmental LCC. […] Read More
Officials in Orange County declared Friday that the Tustin hangar fire is “fully extinguished” after 24 days, calling the blaze “one of the most challenging structure fires in the county’s history.” “I am pleased to inform the public that the final hotspot at the Navy Hangar Fire has been extinguished,” […] Read More
Johnny Schillereff and his wife, Kori, never worried about their home’s proximity to the historic Tustin hangars. If anything, the cavernous wooden structures made the Columbus Square neighborhood where they settled after moving from Newport Beach three years ago even more attractive. They’d have family dinners on their front porch […] Read More
Soon after Jude Francis moved into his new three-story Tustin townhouse in 2012, he attended an open house at his famous neighbor across the street: the city’s twin blimp hangars. Seventeen stories tall, as wide as a football field and over 1,000 feet long, the wooden structures were built by […] Read More
Public schools in Tustin will will be shut Thursday amid concerns about air quality in the wake of a fire that destroyed a massive World War II-era hangar at the nearby former military base. The blaze tore through the north hangar at the shuttered Tustin Marine Corps Air Station on […] Read More
As soon as he heard that one of the historic World War II-era blimp hangars in Tustin had caught fire Tuesday morning, John Gaita drove from Laguna Niguel to see it for himself. Gaita was stationed at the former Tustin Air Base in the 1990s while he served in the […] Read More
