[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "Eglin [AFB, FL] wildfires spreading"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Elgin wildfires spreading

By Jim Thompson
Destin Log (FL)
March 22, 2019
 
EGLIN AFB - Firefighters were continuing late Friday afternoon to battle two wildfires that began Thursday on the base’s test ranges in Santa Rosa County and had consumed a total of 2,400 acres as of the last report from Eglin’s Wildland Support Branch.

According to the update, delivered late Friday morning, the fire that began on Test Area A-77 west of State Road 87 and north of Holley “is currently at 1,900 acres and is approximately 35 percent contained at this time.”

Because Test Area A-77 is a UXO location - a test range where unexploded ordnance is in the ground - firefighters can’t attack the blaze directly, but must construct fire lines - areas cleared of vegetation and other fire fuels - to contain it. Friday’s plan for fighting that fire, according to the morning update, included “improving existing lines and scouting for opportunities to continue to construct fire lines.”



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For the entire article, seehttps://www.thedestinlog.com/news/20190322/eglin-wildfires-spreading



See also https://www.thedestinlog.com/news/20190321/wildfires-burn-eglin-land
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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