2008 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:16:01 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Ft. Chaffee (AR) fire
 
Chaffee fire destroys 60-plus buildings


By Wanda Freeman
TIMES RECORD/Arkansas News
January 30, 2008

FORT SMITH - In the end, falling temperatures, calming winds and 
carefully deployed bulldozers helped firefighters contain a 
conflagration that whipped across Chaffee Crossing Tuesday.

At least 60 unoccupied buildings - with some estimates at perhaps more 
than three times that number - and at least one business were destroyed 
as fire swept over Chaffee Crossing fanned by high winds Tuesday, 
officials said.

...

The Chaffee Crossing area, once part of the former Fort Chaffee military 
base, is now managed by the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority. It is 
a 7,000-acre parcel of land decommissioned by the Department of Defense 
as part of the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in 1995.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2008/01/30/News/345043.html

-- 


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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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