2014 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:06:04 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] BIOLABS: "Fort Detrick's [MD} $10 million fire"
 
Fort Detrick's $10 million fire

By Sylvia Carignan
Frederick News-Post (MD)
March 16, 2014

A welder’s torch may have sparked a fire that caused $10 million in damage at the world’s largest high-security research lab, still under construction at Fort Detrick, according to a report prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The two-alarm blaze started Aug. 14, 2013, at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases’ new home. Two people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation and released the next day. About 300 others were safely evacuated from the 800,000-square-foot building.

The Frederick News-Post obtained the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ report Tuesday via a Freedom of Information Act request.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/disasters_and_accidents/fires/ fort-detrick-s-million-fire/article_6b0025de-2989-5e29-8005- edc9297cc984.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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