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Post by robhart on Nov 23, 2018 12:46:00 GMT -8
I received this email from M & S Hobbies:
TRAGEDY IN PARADISE, CA
Our thoughts and good wishes go out to Paul Fischer and Joe Vondracek
As you know there was a terrible fire in Northern California, specifically Paradise, CA. This was the home of Paul Fischer of Fischer Model Products (our resin Caster) and Joe Vondracek. Both good friends and business partners. Both are doing fine, they escaped with their families. Unfortunately they lost everything else. M & S Hobbies lost the masters for our Cadillac LMP, Audi A4 and Chevy Monza, these kits no longer exist. Once again good wishes and thoughts to Paul Fischer and Joe Vondracek.
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Post by dustymojave on Dec 17, 2018 20:20:42 GMT -8
Such a shame. I'm sure they each lost FAAARRRR more than just those kit masters. My great grandmother spent her last days in Paradise. My best man's (36 years ago) father in law, at 93 years old, lost his home in the fire. Quite the disaster, started apparently by an improperly tended camp fire.
People who don't understand rural life keep saying to me that they were all fools for not cutting down all the trees in the area so their houses wouldn't burn. But then, if you were to do that, why not just buy a house in central LA. Or in New York City for that matter. That's not why most any of those people live, or lived, in that once beautiful area. Why live at risk in a forest when you could chain saw and bulldoze it into a desert? Same people can't understand why I like to live in a desert. Of course, I would also love to live in a forest.
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