[CPEO-MEF] Tustin blimp hangar cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy finishes $129.8 million cleanup after fire in 2023 destroyed WWII blimp hangar in Southern California 

By GARY WARNER 
STARS AND STRIPES 
September 24, 2025

The Navy has spent $129.8 million on the cleanup of the former World War II blimp hangar at the shuttered Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, destroyed almost two years ago by fire, the Pentagon said this week. 

Workers for the Navy have hauled away more than 549 tons of twisted and charred metal from the wreckage, along with just under 77 tons of toxic waste, from the site in Southern California. Another 3,214 tons of nontoxic debris from the charred wreck of the North Hangar, according to a tally by the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command. 

Scott Anderson, environmental coordinator for the Base Realignment and Closure Program Management Office West in San Diego, said that 22 months after the fire, the Navy is crossing the finish li


…

For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-09-24/tustin-blimp-hangar-cleanup-130-million-19208094.html

—

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org