Local Man's Car Collection Goes Up In Flames

KrisTV.com (Corpus Christie): Local Man's Car Collection Goes Up In Flames
Share Rating: 12345 0.0 (0 votes) FLOUR BLUFF -- A building fire destroyed several classic cars and bikes this morning in Flour Bluff.

Three structures on the property burned down.

There was also a camper trailer behind the property that burned.

Right now fire investigators are still trying to piece together what happened.

The blaze started in the 600 block of Claride.

Flames shot several feet in the air as firefighters worked through the scorching heat to get the blaze under control.

Property owner Gordon Heath says he and a man he hired to help him out around here were inside his hobby shop when the fire started.

The two tried to get the flames under control.

The reporter asked, "When did you decide it's time to get out of here?"

Heath said, "Right away because it was too hot to hold the hose so I called 911."

The other man inside said he told his employer, "Hey Crunch it's smoking in here you can't see your way out of the building he said grab the hose by the time i got the hose flames were all over the place."

The property owner had a passion of collecting classic cars and bikes and now they're all destroyed.

He said, "I had an antique motorcycle with a side car on it from the Germans back in the war."

The reporter asked, "Are you going to restore your collection?"

Heath said, "No I'll quit I loss everything I don't have insurance or nothing."

Heath says a camper trailer, boat and RV also went up in flames.

The man he hired to help him around his shop lived inside the RV...so he's just as devastated about this blaze.

He said, "I don't got a job. I got three dollars. I don't know what i'm going to do."

The damage estimate is at more than $200,000.

One of the firemen went to the hospital to be treated for heat exhaustion, but he's expected to be ok.

Again, there's no official cause but witnesses say it could be electrical in nature.