What the records say
- When
- 1 Jun 2008 – 2 Jun 2008
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 34.14° N, 118.35° W
- Description
- 2008 fire that destroyed media archives
- Deaths
- 0
- Injured
- 17
2008 Universal Studios fire
Fire in Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
On June 1, 2008, a fire broke out on the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood, an American film studio and theme park in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County, California. The fire began when a worker used a blowtorch to warm asphalt shingles that were being applied to a facade. The worker left before checking that all spots had cooled, and as a result, a three-alarm fire broke out.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A large fire engulfs parts of Universal Studios in Universal City, California, destroying a vault with the master tapes of as many as half a million songs”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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