Northern Lite - FIRE

[Rickj91]

As a daily lurker on this site, thought I'd pass on some disturbing news. My daughter in law is the Office Mgr for Northern lite and just texted me that the Factory burned down over night. Not sure of any more details.


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[okan-star]

That would cripple a normal camper builder for sure , but one that has molds for fiberglass clamshell type campers ? I hope they had some of them outside the area of the fire

[jimh406]

It is bad news, but could be ok in the long term if they are insured enough. They could modernize more if required although there will be a delay and the workers will be out of work which is not good.

[Mello_Mike]

Wow, that's terrible news. Our thoughts and prayers to the owner and employees. Hope they recover. NL makes a fine camper.

[Rettrooper]

What a shame! They are very nice campers, hopefully they will recover without problems.

[billtex]

That is terrible news. They are one of the nicest and highest quality campers available.
Hopefuly they will recover and rebuild.

Our prayers go out to all employees/owners and their Families.

Bill

[Super_Dave]

I have heard of a few people that have new ones on order. I'm sure they are going to be very disappointed.

Willing to bet that their first reaction will be, "where's our deposit?"

[RoyB]

Wow - Those were nice truck campers...
NORTHERN LITE TRUCK CAMPERS


Roy Ken

[Butch50]

That is very bad news form an NL owner. I have heard of a few people that have new ones on order. I'm sure they are going to be very disappointed. Also for all the workers there that are going to be out of work. I sure hope they rebuild in fact it would be nice if they relocated to an area where they have a little more room and a little better access. When we visited there last year it seems that they were kind of short on space. When you leave the factory and drove to the main road all you could do is turn right as the road is so busy you would never be able to turn to the left as it is just a steady stream of vehicles.

If they lost all of their forms for the campers it is going to take a long time to rebuild all of the forms and get back into production again if they do.

ON EDIT:Made it a clicky

[Hodag1]

Yes it burned.

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-109814--.htm#109814

[The_Mad_Norsky]

Made it a clickable link:

Northern Lite Fire News

Indeed, very sad news. Now it moves into the uncertain state of economics, insurance, and all that mess in making a decision to reopen.

Hoping for the best.

[kerry4951]

I found a link to the fire. Apparently it sounds like the fire resulted in a total loss. Very sad.
http://www.castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/109814/Business-destroyed