[brewcitybirs]

So sad! I feel bad about bugging him about the intake he was doing for me now.

[VCho455]

I've communicated with Dave and they are just devastated. Basically 35 years of work is gone. At this point the only piece of equipment he thinks may be salvaged is the Dyno and he doubts if the electronics will have survived the all the water from the firefighting. They are looking to relocate leaving the bad luck and memories behind.

On the insurance front they have met with their lawyer to start the process of forcing the insurance companies to pay for the losses.

I'm not familiar with Canadian insurance laws but if this was the US I know the insurance companies would be competing to see who paid out the least.

Dave did say they have been going though the heads that were in the shop identifying them and checking for damage.

And everyone should be aware Dave said that he doesn't have any computers of his own at the moment so he will be slow replying to emails, so be patience when communicating with him.

[stevesbirds]

I thought about that, can he grow a better shop on that small lot? Its all so very complicated, abd then you aren't close to shop for the security issues, let alone the ability to have a simple life of home versus work.

If he needs workers, I would pry a couple weeks loose.

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by stevesbirds

I thought about that, can he grow a better shop on that small lot?.

I can tell you from experience that it’s devastating and hard to overcome. A fresh start elsewhere is the cure but it’s taken me 5 years to get over the loss of my personal shop and most of the parts I’d collected since I was a teenager. For him to loose his livelihood on top is just devastating. Hopefully he can overcome this and I would also be willing to help out if a work party is needed.

[Dave Bisschop]

Thank you everyone for your words of concern and encouragement. The past month has been a tough one for my entire family as it was a lot more than just the business that burned to the ground on June 8th. My family and I along with lots of friends have been doing the salvaging. We had a large group of friends help us on June 10th and pulled a lot of the larger items from the debris pile with the help of a good friends mini excavator. Since then it's become a much more tedious process where we are literally shoveling by hand, sifting through each shovel full, removing anything of value whether it's salvageable or not as we need to document as much as possible. At this point we haven't scrapped anything as our lawyer has advised us to wait till the bus company either comes out to see everything or passes on laying eyes on the destroyed items. We should be done with the hand shoveling for the most part by the end of this week, we've hauled away over 10 tons of ash and building debris so far. The only salvageable piece of equipment is the dyno which we hope to setup at another location in the next few months. I'm also working on setting up a hand porting area at a buddies shop so once I'm done with the cleanup and documenting process I can finish as much work as I can that was in process. It's not going to be easy to get the shop back up and running to where things were prior to the fire but I'm determined to do what I can and hope that in the end we come out of this ok but the legal battle will probably take a few years. We lost my son Zac and daughter in law Kayla's 1970 Tempest post that we'd been doing a body off frame nut and bottle restoration on the past years and the car was close to being ready for paint, it's now a twisted up burnt piece of scrap metal, I lost half of my 63 Tempest wagon that I've been picking away at for the last 23 years, the painted doors and fenders were in the shop along with the the mint original rear seat and most of the trim and all the new parts I had aquired so I'll probably need to find another car to finish it now. That's just a small part of the personal parts we lost as parts for all the cars were in the shop. It's still hard to take looking at what use to be my shop everyday but we'll figure it out and with all the amazing support we've been getting from family, friends and complete strangers I think we have fighting chance to get things back to the way they were for the most part, we just have to be patient and work harder than ever to make it happen. Sorry for the delay in responding to this post, I'll work on adding updates to the website as things develop.

[VCho455]

Good to hear some news.
VC

[stevesbirds]

It's the beginning of snow in the Northern regions. It's already in the National parks in upper Idaho, I think.

There is a scramble this time of year, a million things to get prepared.

And, sadly, until a lawsuit plays out, his hands are pretty tied. Provided he doesn't get hosed, it could be a long hard battle to get a settlement that is 100% ,on the charter owner. The school district was very evasive when I tried to reach someone., just to get a accident report that should be public. Tells me, no one wants to step up and act with integrity.

I would guee this is a very long situation before he can be in a business operation.

Floods, fires, they just suck so so much.

[joe'sgto]

Originally Posted by stevesbirds

It's the beginning of snow in the Northern regions. It's already in the National parks in upper Idaho, I think.

There is a scramble this time of year, a million things to get prepared.

And, sadly, until a lawsuit plays out, his hands are pretty tied. Provided he doesn't get hosed, it could be a long hard battle to get a settlement that is 100% ,on the charter owner. The school district was very evasive when I tried to reach someone., just to get a accident report that should be public. Tells me, no one wants to step up and act with integrity.

I would guee this is a very long situation before he can be in a business operation.

Floods, fires, they just suck so so much.

I totally understand all of this. I just thought he would reach back out to me with something.