[DeTomaso] Zogg Fire - Ken Vossen RIP

[dan at excaliburre.com]

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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