[CPEO-MEF] BIOLABS: "Fort Detrick's [MD} $10 million fire"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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