“Your Surf Shop’s on Fire”: 30-Year Veteran Remembers Getting a Frightening Wake-Up Call One Fine Day

Sometimes there is not only nature or lack of hard work that ruins an ambitious project, sometimes there are external elements that quietly destroy those projects, In a similar incident, a former surfer recalls a memory where someone jealous destroyed his whole hard work by burning it to the ground. Check out the following story for more info.

A Devastating Incident for surfing veteran 

Surfing veteran Gerry Lopez got a call one day and somebody said, "Your surf shop's on fire," while remembering the burning of his Lightning Bolt surf shop.


Gerry explaining the horrible incident

Gerry explains the shop burning incident in Patagania's show, The Ying and Yang of Gerry Lopez.
Credit - Patagonia/ YouTube

Cause of the fire at the surf shop

According to the fire department, it was an arson where someone had squirted the flammable liquid beneath the building's rear door to light up the fire. 

Gerry Lopez's rebound!

Gerry did not let himself down and started it all again with Randy Rarick and Jack, with whom he rose to prominence again.

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