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NMVA suffers loss due to major fire
Sadly this fire occurred yesterday and some of our members were affected. The Niagara Military Vehicle Association had a large collection of vehicles stored at a former chicken farm. The site was quite large and had about 40 businesses in the various buildings. The NMVA was able to get about 80% of their vehicles out before the fire conditions worsened and was no longer safe to get anymore. Sadly a lot lost everything.
https://www.iheartradio.ca/610cktb/n...ire-1.14549005 The pictures were pulled from some public Facebook posts. The google maps picture shows the site layout. I believe the NMVA were in two shorter and 1st long building on the left side. Thoughts to all those affected.
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Jordan Baker RHLI Museum, Otter LRC C15A-Wire3, 1944 Willys MB, 1942 10cwt Canadian trailer |
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Heartbreaking
Hopefully they are insured for such a disaster.
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update
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Terry Warner - 74-????? M151A2 - 70-08876 M38A1 - 53-71233 M100CDN trailer Beware! The Green Disease walks among us! |
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Edited - I found a historic weather reporting website. On 9 Feb the winds started at zero, then increased from 5 to 10 to 15 kph throughout the day, and as conjectured were from Northwest to Southeast.
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Terry Warner - 74-????? M151A2 - 70-08876 M38A1 - 53-71233 M100CDN trailer Beware! The Green Disease walks among us! |
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Here are a couple of pictures from today showing the devastation.
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Jordan Baker RHLI Museum, Otter LRC C15A-Wire3, 1944 Willys MB, 1942 10cwt Canadian trailer |
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Waiting for someone in the collection to make a report.
If months had feelings, I think February has it right. It has the decency to be really short, so life can start again in March.
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Terry Warner - 74-????? M151A2 - 70-08876 M38A1 - 53-71233 M100CDN trailer Beware! The Green Disease walks among us! |
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Update from Gavin Young, current NMVA President.
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Jordan Baker RHLI Museum, Otter LRC C15A-Wire3, 1944 Willys MB, 1942 10cwt Canadian trailer |
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What an awful tragedy! Very sad to hear that some irreplaceable property was destroyed, though I understand there were no lives lost.
All my best wishes to all those affected.
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Rev high! Alex 57 Triumph TRW 500 (Canadian Army) and other toys |
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My worst nightmare.......what a loss. It's definately not the first time the MV collector world gets hit by fire and not the first time we have seen horrible pictures like this on the forum.....I can only hope indeed most collectors vehicles have survived.
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Certainly “food for thought” to anyone who has their equipment “stored” anywhere.
In the auto club that I used to belong to we had insurance for the building and that was it. Members were responsible for their own individual insurance on vehicles housed there. Something to consider for any collector is to have a policy put in place while a vehicle is under restoration, as most guys don’t. I think Hagerty offers such protection.
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3RD Echelon Wksp 1968 M274A5 Mule Baifield USMC 1966 M274A2 Mule BMY USMC 1958 M274 Mule Willys US Army 1970 M38A1 CDN3 70-08715 1 CSR 1981 MANAC 3/4T CDN trailer 1943 Converto Airborne Trailer 1983 M1009 CUCV RT-524, PRC-77s, and trucks and stuff and more stuff and and....... OMVA, MVPA, G503, Steel Soldiers |
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The storage facility that I use has working, inspected and tested sprinkler systems. I would not consider ANYTHING else.
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More media coverage
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Terry Warner - 74-????? M151A2 - 70-08876 M38A1 - 53-71233 M100CDN trailer Beware! The Green Disease walks among us! |
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