According to the Associated Press, there was no disgruntled security guard involved in the Universal Studios fire this time around. Instead, the culprit responsible for the destruction of the back lot’s iconic Back to the Future clock tower set (as well as a King Kong tram tour exhibit and thousands of archived videos) was...bad luck. And possibly bad water pressure.
Workers at the studio had apparently been using a blowtorch (or blowtorches) to apply shingles to the roof of a movie set building façade, after which they waited around for an hour (per standard operating procedure) to make sure that nothing, y'know, caught fire and, uh...hold on, let me read that again...they were applying shingles to fake buildings with blowtorches? As opposed to...oh, I dunno...nails?
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