[CPEO-IRF] Mare Island (CA) wine warehouse burns

[lsiegel@cpeo.org]

[I'm sending out this article because it shows an unusual military base
reuse, not for environmental reasons. - LS]

Wine warehouse burns
Five-alarm fire threatens up to $100M in goods


By J.M. BROWN
Vallejo Times Herald (CA)
October 13, 2005

A massive five-alarm fire ripped through a 240,000-square-foot wine
storage warehouse and historic former Navy facility on Mare Island
Wednesday, endangering up to $100 million worth of high-quality vintage
wine and other goods. 

Three employees were safely evacuated after the fire erupted at 3:40
p.m. inside Wine Central Services, which is housed in Building 627,
where parts of the atom bomb were kept six decades ago. 

The fire, the most expensive in the city's history, was contained at
about 10 p.m., but crews planned to remain on scene through the night. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_3112238

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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