ORANGE COUNTY, CA — Today, Representatives Lou Correa (CA-46) and Young Kim (CA-40) led a bipartisan letter to Department of the Navy’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Coordinator Elizabeth Roddy asking the Navy’s plans to mitigate impacts of the recent fire at the former Marine Corps Air Station, which is owned by the Navy, in Tustin, CA.
“[W]e were devastated to learn that one of the historic hangars at the air station caught fire, and later that the blaze was too significant for firefighters to preserve the structure. Most of the structure has collapsed and is beyond repair,” the members wrote. “This is a somber event for the community, as many current residents are veterans who served at this air station.”
Led by Reps. Correa and Kim, the letter was also signed by Orange County Representatives Michelle Steel (CA-45), Katie Porter (CA-47), Linda Sanchez (CA-38), and Mike Levin (CA-49), as well as Southern California Representatives Ken Calvert (CA-41), Jay Obernolte (CA-23), Mike Garcia (CA-27), and Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-25).
“We are deeply concerned about the environmental impact of this fire and about the release of pollutants in Tustin and the surrounding areas that could impact our constituents’ health,” they added. “Ash and debris from the fire have fallen on residents’ properties and are getting into their homes.”
In their letter, the Members requested that the Department brief and provide written responses to the below questions:
You can read the full text of the letter HERE.
Congressman Lou Correa is a longtime Orange County resident, with deep local roots. To this day, he lives only three miles from his childhood neighborhood in Anaheim. He is the son of working-class parents whose hard work gave him a chance at success, and has spent his career fighting to protect the American Dream, and ensure anyone can reach the middle class, just as he did. In 2016, Lou was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to continue his work by representing the community he has spent the past 20 years serving, fighting to give everyone access to the same opportunity he had. Congressman Correa is committed to working across party lines to strengthen the middle class and give everyone a shot at the American Dream by investing in education, healthcare, and our fading infrastructure, and has introduced legislation to protect the legal rights of immigrants, care for veterans, and fight against the wasteful spending of taxpayer money.
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These buildings should have been demolished years ago. I'm all for honoring our history and our veterans, but we can find better ways to do that than clinging to blighted relics of the past. Reality is, all blimp hangars were obsolete before they were even built, and neither of these hangars have any practical use or relevance to Tustin or its residents in the 21st century. They're ugly, creepy, horrifically out of scale to their surroundings-- and have now proven to be a significant danger to the community. But as always city/county officials and developers LOVE getting attention from grandiose boondoggle re-use plans. (Maybe Miguel Pulido and Mike Harrah will even get involved!) Time to knock them down and move on.