[DeTomaso] Zogg Fire - Ken Vossen RIP
dan at excaliburre.com
dan at excaliburre.com
Sun Nov 15 14:54:28 EST 2020
Here's a couple of excerpts from the LA Times story:
Ken and his family flew into action. Rexanne drove their son to a safe
evacuation place. Kevin tried to protect the house while Ken doused water on
the building housing all the automobiles. Separated from his brother, Kevin
eventually left. Embers blowing in the wind caught Ken, who jumped onto his
ATV and raced it down to the pond.
"He made it to water," Kevin said, "but the damage had already been done."
Neighbors found Ken conscious but with third-degree burns on 97% of his
body, Kevin said. He was rushed to a local hospital and airlifted to the UC
Davis hospital in Sacramento, where he died two days later.
An old De Tomaso Pantera, a gift from Ken's father, was one of the few
recognizable relics at the family's burned ranch.
(Jesse Lindberg)
Last weekend, Lindberg, Sanderson and others returned to the ranch to sift
through the wreckage. Dead trees littered the yard. Ash blanketed the land.
The building that housed the cars had collapsed.
Beside a mangled heap of metal, Lindberg found what he was hunting for: an
old sports car - a
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso_Pantera#:~:text=The%20De%20Tomaso%2
0Pantera%20is,its%20twenty%2Dyear%20production%20run.> De Tomaso Pantera -
that Ken's dad had given his son. It seemed to have just enough salvageable
parts to rebuild into a car, a planned tribute to Ken.
(Back to Dan)
This is a really tragic story that's really pulling at me. In the first
photo the barn is closed and I don't see the Pantera outside. In the after
photo it's partially out of the barn. It probably wasn't running. If most of
us had our later Father's Pantera in a barn (and the Pantera would likely
have been inside the barn, not outside) we might have tried to push it out.
I'm just speculating.
Has anyone reached out to his brother Kevin?
Maybe we can help.
This wouldn't be the first burned up Pantera the Club resurrected, right
MadDawg?
Here's the link to the whole LA Times story, so you can see both photos:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/zogg-fire-lives-lost-sha
sta-county-california-wildfire
Dan Courtney
La Jolla / Yosemite
(858) 337-7019
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Here's a couple of excerpts from the LA Times story:
Ken and his family flew into action. Rexanne drove their son to a safe
evacuation place. Kevin tried to protect the house while Ken doused
water on the building housing all the automobiles. Separated from his
brother, Kevin eventually left. Embers blowing in the wind caught Ken,
who jumped onto his ATV and raced it down to the pond.
"He made it to water," Kevin said, "but the damage had already been
done."
Neighbors found Ken conscious but with third-degree burns on 97% of his
body, Kevin said. He was rushed to a local hospital and airlifted to
the UC Davis hospital in Sacramento, where he died two days later.
The shell of a burned car sits amid rubble.
An old De Tomaso Pantera, a gift from Ken's father, was one of the few
recognizable relics at the family's burned ranch.
(Jesse Lindberg)
Last weekend, Lindberg, Sanderson and others returned to the ranch to
sift through the wreckage. Dead trees littered the yard. Ash blanketed
the land. The building that housed the cars had collapsed.
Beside a mangled heap of metal, Lindberg found what he was hunting for:
an old sports car -- a [1]De Tomaso Pantera -- that Ken's dad had given
his son. It seemed to have just enough salvageable parts to rebuild
into a car, a planned tribute to Ken.
(Back to Dan)
This is a really tragic story that's really pulling at me. In the first
photo the barn is closed and I don't see the Pantera outside. In the
after photo it's partially out of the barn. It probably wasn't running.
If most of us had our later Father's Pantera in a barn (and the Pantera
would likely have been inside the barn, not outside) we might have
tried to push it out. I'm just speculating.
Has anyone reached out to his brother Kevin?
Maybe we can help.
This wouldn't be the first burned up Pantera the Club resurrected,
right MadDawg?
Here's the link to the whole LA Times story, so you can see both
photos:
[2]https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/zogg-fire-lives-
lost-shasta-county-california-wildfire
Dan Courtney
La Jolla / Yosemite
(858) 337-7019
References
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso_Pantera#:~:text=The%20De%20Tomaso%20Pantera%20is,its%20twenty%2Dyear%20production%20run.
2. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/zogg-fire-lives-lost-shasta-county-california-wildfire
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