Fire at Canon Virginia Repair Facility

I live in Newport News, the location of one of Canon's repair facility.

The news just broadcast a story about a fire in the camera/computer repair lab, to the tune of $1M worth of cameras and computers in for repair and bench equipment.

It'll be interesting to see how the story morphs over the next couple of days.

Just thought some here might be interested.

That is gonna suck for someone... I am sorry for them. I guess Canon is not having a good year..

Scott_Quier wrote in post #12634375
I live in Newport News, the location of one of Canon's repair facility.

The news just broadcast a story about a fire in the camera/computer repair lab, to the tune of $1M worth of cameras and computers in for repair and bench equipment.

It'll be interesting to see how the story morphs over the next couple of days.

Just thought some here might be interested.

the local news says the damages are over a $1,000,000 to the camera repair facility in Canon
http://www.dailypress.​com …anon-fire,0,6973109.story

I am sure they have insurance and anyone who had their camera damaged would get a refurbished replacement.

The fire, in the 12000 block of Canon Boulevard, was reported at 3:43 a.m. and was contained to an office area containing about 100 work stations. Barrick said the work area included computers, electronic equipment and equipment used to repair cameras

One would have to assume that where there is equipment to repair cameras, there would be cameras to repair.

Oh man! Looks like if there IS any damaged equipment that was sent in will insteed be getting new camera's thanks to canon's bank account. Hopefully all is well.

A bit more detail is available on the web-site of a local TV station:

http://www.wvec.com …port-News--124275849.html

This still doesn't have all the detail that was provided in the on-air story .... which seemed to indicate that there were actually cameras and computers in that area either awaiting repair or in the process of being repaired.

But, then again, I might have mis-understood what I think I heard.

damn! i just sent my camera to be repair last night.....what should I do?should i stop the shipment?

If you sent it last night, I would like to know how your going to stop the shipment?

And if it didn't get there yet, the fire's out so no worries...

Man I would hate to get a refurbished replacement that was worse than my original.

I shipped a 580EXII to be repaired that arrived at the Virginia facility today. Tracking said delivered around 9 something this morning.

dbld49 wrote in post #12635574
I shipped a 580EXII to be repaired that arrived at the Virginia facility today. Tracking said delivered around 9 something this morning.

Do you think your 580EXII went up in a .....wait for it.....FLASH!?

acs55812 wrote in post #12635401
If you sent it last night, I would like to know how your going to stop the shipment?

If you the sender and shipped with FedEx (probably UPS too) you can call 1-800-GOFEDEX and tell them to reroute the shipment (doesn't work 100%, but worth a try)

I was thinking i'd get my flash back by friday, now maybe not.