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Know About NASCAR.”
In 1974, he turned pro,
and in 1979, he became the
top ice speedway motorcycle
racer in the U.S., the biogra-
phy says.
In the 1980s, Hughes
worked as a fabricator and
body specialist on cars for
NASCAR drivers Randy La-
Joie and Rob Moroso, and as
a crew chief on a Craftsman
Truck team in Washington,
before moving to Las Vegas
in 1994, according to a Las
Vegas Sun column. The col-
umn detailed a 1999 attempt
by Hughes to build a car
from leftover pieces and use
it to qualify for NASCAR’s
Winston Cup Series. It’s un-
clear whether he was suc-
cessful.
In Vegas, Hughes became
both limousine chauffeur
and daredevil; he took to re-
ferring to himself as “the
world’s most famous limo
driver.”
“He wanted to do some-
thing original, and he came
up with the idea of jumping a
limo,” Brusseau said.
Hughes’ 2002 feat in Per-
ris still holds the record for
longest limousine ramp
jump, according to the Guin-
ness World Records’ web-
site. That might be because
no such category had ex-
isted until he contacted the
record-keepers to ask if they
would be interested.
Hughes was always plan-
ning his next stunt, with
each one taking him higher
than the last.
He built his first manned
rocket in 2014 — a contrap-
tion he called the X-
SkyLimo — and managed to
launch himself more than
1,300 feet over Winkelman,
Ariz., he told the Associated
Press. Afterward, he report-
edly collapsed and needed
several days to recover.
Over the next couple of
years, Hughes began saying
in interviews that he be-
lieved the Earth was flat —
“Frisbee-shaped,” and that
he wanted to go up into
space to make sure.
It’s unclear how strongly
he held the conviction, or if
he really believed it at all. His
publicist, Darren Shuster,
said Saturday that the “flat
Earth thing ... was a PR
stunt we dreamed up” to get
publicity and attract spon-
sors for the rockets that the
self-taught engineer made in
his garage at his home in Ap-
ple Valley, Calif.
But Michael Linn,
Brusseau’s partner on the
documentary, said that,
based on his conversations
with Hughes, the belief ap-
peared to be genuine.
“He was a lonely guy,”
Linn said. “He had a lot of
time to surf YouTube, and he
went down the YouTube
rabbit hole and developed
some weird beliefs.”
In 2018, Hughes success-
fully launched himself in a
rocket nearly 1,900 feet in the
air and landed in the Mojave
Desert near Amboy, Calif., a
feat captured on camera for
“Rocketman.”
“When we were filming it,
we were thinking to our-
selves, ‘Wow, this is danger-ous,’ ” Brusseau said. “I
think that’s what hit us then
and there: This is completely
dangerous. And luckily it
didn’t turn out that way forus that day.”
The documentary has a
happy ending, one that the
filmmakers wish translated
to real life.
“I love that ending, where
he was able to be successful,”
Brusseau said. “Regardless
of what happened, he still
built a rocket and he
launched a rocket. And
when it comes down to it, he
deserves kudos for that.”
Saturday’s launch was to
be Hughes’ highest yet; he
was attempting to travel
5,000 feet into the air. His
journey was to be featured
on “Homemade Astro-nauts,” a series on the Scien-
ce Channel. The launch was
initially scheduled for last
August but was moved sev-
eral times because of techni-
cal difficulties.
But that was merely the
lead-up to what Hughes
called the ultimate launch,
one that would take him 62
miles up, to the Karman line,
which marks the border be-
tween Earth’s atmosphere
and space.
“Our thoughts and
prayers go out to Mike
Hughes’ family and friends
during this difficult time,” a
spokeswoman for the net-work said in a statement. “It
was always his dream to do
this launch, and Science
Channel was there to chroni-
cle his journey.”
Hughes had no close rela-
tives and lived alone in Ap-
ple Valley with his four cats,
Brusseau and Linn said.
“It made him feel alive to
do these types of stunts.
There was no stopping him,”
Linn said. “There was part of
me that wished he would
find a hobby that was fun for
him but had less of a chance
of dying, maybe training his
cats or something, but that
wouldn’t have done it for
him.”
In the days leading up to
the fatal crash, Discov-
ery.com posted a video of
Hughes showing off the
rocket in his front yard.
“People ask me why I do
stuff like this,” he said. “And
basically, it’s just to convince
people they can do things ex-
traordinary with their lives,
and maybe it pushes people
to do things they normally
wouldn’t do with their life
that maybe will inspire
someone else.”Times staff writer David
Zahniser contributed to this
report.‘Mad Mike’ had flair for dangerous stunts
[Daredevil,from B1]
“MAD MIKE” HUGHESwith a steam-powered rocket in 2017. He built his first manned rocket in 2014.Waldo StakesHUGHESclimbs into his
home-built rocket before
his fatal flight.Mercedes Blackehart‘Basically, it’s just to
convince people they can
do things extraordinary
with their lives.’
—‘MADMIKE’ HUGHES,on his dangerous stuntsDozens of concerned
residents, state officials and
representatives of sur-
rounding communities
packed Costa Mesa City Hall
on Saturday to show their
support for the city’s deci-
sion to request a temporary
restraining order that
blocks state and federal
agencies from using a local
facility as a quarantine site
for coronavirus patients.
U.S. District Judge Jo-
sephine Staton issued an in-
junction on Friday prevent-
ing the transport of anyone
infected with or exposed to
the COVID-19 virus to any lo-
cation in Costa Mesa before
a hearing scheduled for 2
p.m. Monday at the federal
courthouse in Santa Ana.
The virus, first reported
in China in January, has
spread to more than two
dozen countries, including
the United States, and has
resulted in more than 79,
confirmed cases and more
than 2,600 deaths.
Residents of Costa Mesa
and neighboring cities main-
tained Saturday that the
state-owned Fairview Devel-
opmental Center in the city
is a bad choice for a quaran-
tine and treatment center.
“Ludicrous,” Costa Mesa
resident Katherine Craft
said. “What would motivate
someone ... to put sick peo-
ple with a deadly virus that
we don’t know enough about
into a community of over
100,000 and at a facility that’s
outdated?”
The center, on 114 acres at
2501 Harbor Blvd., opened in
1959 and at its peak in 1967
housed 2,700 adults with in-
tellectual and developmen-
tal disabilities, but it is now
virtually empty.
Like similar facilities
around the state, it is set to
close soon as part of an effort
to use smaller accommoda-
tions more integrated into
communities rather than in-
stitutional-style centers.
Costa Mesa’s legal action
Friday came less than 24
hours after city officials said
they were notified about
plans to send patients with
COVID-19 to Fairview.
On Sunday, the federal
defendants named in the
city’s filing — including the
Department of Health and
Human Services, Depart-ment of Defense, Air Force
and Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention —
called the city’s objections
“premature,” “speculation”
and lacking a basis for “ex-
traordinary disruption and
intervention.”
In the state’s response, it
called the potential for
transmission of the virus to
the community around
Fairview “negligible” and
said patients would not be
able to interact with the
community from the se-
cured site.
The state said local au-
thorities are trying to im-
pede state and federal ac-
tions based on speculation
that “is not only incorrect
but contrary to public health
protection of the very com-
munity involved.”
Representatives of Or-
ange County and Newport
Beach said they planned to
file court documents in sup-
port of Costa Mesa’s action.
The city’s emergency
services manager, Jason
Dempsey, said in court
documents that representa-
tives of the California Office
of Emergency Services, the
Orange County Emergency
Management Division and
the county Health Care
Agency called him at 5:
p.m. Thursday and told him
the buildings at Fairview
would be cleaned up by Sun-
day in order to place 30 to 50
infected people there.Any California residents
diagnosed with the co-
ronavirus at Travis Air Force
Base, a quarantine site in
Northern California, would
be sent to Fairview, he said.
If they needed hospital care,
they would be taken to an
Orange County hospital.
Jim Acosta, acting ad-
ministrator of the Office of
Emergency Services’ South-
ern Region, told Dempsey
on Thursday in an email in-
cluded in the court docu-
ments that Fairview “was se-
lected because no military
installations will be used ...
[and] state-owned proper-
ties with these characteris-
tics are few and in condition
to handle this.”
Dempsey notified the
City Council, which held an
emergency closed session
Friday afternoon in which it
voted to file for the tempo-
rary restraining order.
Orange County Board of
Supervisors Chairwoman
Michelle Steel said the idea
of sending patients to Costa
Mesa was unacceptable.
“We have families here
and we have children here,”
she said. “We didn’t have any
details and just suddenly
they said, ‘We’re going to
send these people down to
your location.’ ”
A large contingent of
elected officials filled the
Costa Mesa City Council
Chamber on Saturday, in-
cluding U.S. Rep. HarleyRouda (D-Laguna Beach),
state Assemblywoman Cot-
tie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna
Beach) and council mem-
bers from Costa Mesa and
Newport Beach.
“Let’s be clear. We do
have deep sympathy for
those who are infected with
this virus,” Rouda said. “But
let’s also be clear — all of us,
as elected officials repre-
senting you, have an obliga-
tion for your safety and wel-
fare as well.”
On Friday night, Kate
Folmar of the California
Health and Human Services
Agency said in an email that
the Fairview Developmental
Center was “under consider-
ation as a potential loca-
tion.”
“We are working closely
with the federal government
and local partners to assess
possible locations only for
fellow Californians who have
tested positive for novel co-
ronavirus, received neces-
sary medical care and need
an appropriate place to
spend the remainder of their
federal quarantine,” Folmar
said.
“Housing these individu-
als in a single facility for the
remainder of their quaran-
tine will help ensure public
health and safety.”
In a statement Saturday
afternoon, the agency said
that Fairview was “one of the
possible locations under
consideration” and that, if itwas chosen, the federal gov-
ernment would provide
healthcare and security.
“The federal government
has determined that anyone
who tests positive for novel
coronavirus cannot stay at
Travis Air Force Base,” the
statement said. “Some who
have tested positive will
need hospital care. But
based upon our experience,
many are not sick enough to
need hospital care but still
must be isolated until the in-
fection is cleared.”
Patrick Huggins, 55, said
he lived a stone’s throw from
Fairview — “downwind.”
“When it was a fully func-
tional mental hospital ... we
could tell when they burned
fish sticks,” Huggins said. “If
they want to build up the fa-
cility and turn it into some-
thing that can handle a bio-
logical hazard, go for it. I’m
not a NIMBY. I’m just,
‘Please God, think through
it!’ ”
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention says
the virus is spread through
person-to-person contact
“via respiratory droplets
produced when an infected
person coughs or sneezes ...
[that] can land in the
mouths or noses of people
who are nearby or possibly
be inhaled into the lungs.”
Costa Mesa Mayor
Katrina Foley echoed many
residents’ thoughts when
she questioned why officials
would choose Fairview. Last
week, she said, the Califor-
nia Department of General
Services informed city offi-
cials that Fairview was “in-
adequate to put a homeless
shelter.”
“So you tell me,” Foley
said. “Is it adequate” for pa-
tients with coronavirus?
Residents erupted into
applause.
The Fairview campus is
surrounded by group homes
for senior citizens or people
with disabilities.
Neighbors expressed
concerns Saturday about
the possibility of infected pa-
tients coming to stay close
by. As one person put it: “No-
body’s happy.”
Eddrick Watson, 24, a
caregiver at a ResCare
home, said his biggest con-
cern was for his clients, who
are already vulnerable to ill-
ness.
“Any type of virus going
around ... could be fatal for
them,” Watson said.Pinho writes for Times
Community News. Times
Community News staff
writer Hillary Davis
contributed to this report.O.C. residents criticize coronavirus plan
Crowds support Costa
Mesa’s lawsuit against
state proposal to open
quarantine site in city.
By Faith E. Pinho“THE VIRUS will probably eventually make its way” to us, Costa Mesa resident
Tricia Miller, 61, said of the international coronavirus outbreak.Faith E. PinhoTimes Community News