[CPEO-MEF] Fort Huachuca (AZ) range fire

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fire on fort: Grenade sparks blaze in Garden Canyon

By Bill Hess
Sierra Vista Herald (AZ)
June 27, 2007

FORT HUACHUCA - A Tuesday fire on this Southern Arizona post was caused 
by a ricocheting practice round from a 40mm machine gun-like grenade 
launcher that hit a tank hulk being used as a target, post officials said.

As of early Tuesday evening, the blaze, which is being called the Range 
9 Fire, had consumed between 350 and 400 acres since it started about 
10:30 a.m.

Using the special range on the post were soldiers of the Arizona Army 
National Guard's 860th Military Police Company, according to fort 
officials. The company, whose headquarters is in Casa Grande, is at the 
fort doing its annual two-week training.

Fighting the fire is a number of U.S. Forest Service assets, including 
three Hot Shot Crews, one from Gila, another from Heber and the third 
from Payson, local Forest Service firefighters, two water-dropping 
helicopters, as well as a single engine air tanker and a twin engine 
heavy aircraft, both of which are dropping slurry, and a control 
aircraft. The range is an area of unexploded ordnance, and during the 
fire some of it "cooked off" but no injuries were reported.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/06/27/news/vertical_top_story/doc468178afe2010866506987.txt

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