[CPEO-MEF] "Navy Feels The Heat Over Fire Alerting of residents delayed three

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Navy Feels The Heat Over Fire Alerting of residents delayed three weeks

Tom Zoellner, Chronicle Staff Writer 
                                                 
Tuesday, September 12,  2000 

The Environmental Protection Agency criticized the U.S. Navy yesterday for
letting a fire burn at a toxic landfill at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard for
more than three weeks before issuing a public alert. 

``We're unhappy about the timeliness of the Navy's response,'' said Daniel
Meer, chief of the Superfund Division of EPA's Federal Facilities Cleanup
Branch in San Francisco. 

Meer said the Navy needs better emergency plans for the abandoned
ship-repair facility 10 miles south of downtown, where a stubborn
underground fire has been smoldering since Aug. 18. 

It started as a grass fire, apparently set off by a homeless man. A federal
fire crew thought that they had extinguished the blaze after six hours of
dousing it with water, but hot spots continue to erupt in the field. 

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