Universal Studios Fire(UPDATED)

Map where Fire Was Burned.MoreInformation Below

A huge and devastating fire has destroyed a large section of backlot. At it's height over 400 firefighters were on the scene. It was reported around 4.45am in the chapel on New England Street and spread rapidly through the New York Street facades. It was not fully extinguished until almost 17 hours later. Areas destroyed or damaged:

King Kong attraction soundstage (the fire spread from adjacent buildings via the roof, so the sprinkler systems were defeated). The attraction will be replaced with a new design - the giant ape will not return.
Courthouse Square (at least two sides of the square are destroyed - the Courthouse itself, once again, has been spared). Ghost Whisperer production will be affected.
New York Street
New England Street
Video Vaults adjacent to New York Street (at the time of writing, these are still burning). As duplicate copies are kept elsewhere, no material was believed to have been lost forever. The film vaults are elsewhere and were not affected. UPDATE: The studio's print of 1998 Robin Williams movie What Dreams May Come was lost in the fire, and a worldwide search has been launched to find a copy.
Fire fighters are blaming water pressure problems on the spread of the fire. The fire protection features introduced after the 1990 fire were said to be not working properly. It's understood that deluge tanks were installed and designed to dump water on the facades to extinguish fire instantly. It's not known whether these functioned correctly. Water had to be taken from nearby Park Lake and Jaws Lake and from hydrants outside the studio.
Nine firefighters and a Sheriff's deputy sustained minor injuries during the fire, and from an explosion in the video vault when a bulldozer, trying to clear a path to the seat of the fire, ran over something.

The cause of the fire is now believed to have been a blowtorch used by workmen to repair the chapel roof on New England Street around 3am. They followed policy of standing watch for an hour (to spot any fire after the work) then went for a break. The fire was reported at 4.43am by a security guard. The Universal City Fire crew were on scene four minutes later, by which time a whole block of facades was engulfed

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[simpsonsman192]

starting from 0:20 to 1:09 ,what was that ? A lady yelling and people screaming? And the sizzle sound on the end what was that?

[RMAworld]

oh,all of that was from the king kong part of the studio tour

[RMAworld]

yes I did, and your point is?

[outatime8]

oh nothing my caps had a malfunctin no caps ment caps and caps ment well you know.=)

[RMAworld]

what

[Jodope1]

@simpsonman192 that was the king kong attraction playing as the background lol

[loganSGWE]

my god i waz there when dat happen

[jacksite2007]

king kong and the video vault was ded far away from where the fire started!

[madpyroman]

idc if he got it from the studio tour site

all i care is that universal studious is ok!

[outatime8]

nothing

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[jasonkane2007]

are point that i was their fool when it happen i was going to ride jurassic park and we had to leave the park thats are point so what he ask did u get this from the universal studio website :-(