[CPEO-MEF] Wildfire burning in Camp Hale--WW II UXO site

[Aimee Houghton <aimeeh@cpeo.org>]

July 8, 2002

Wild Fire Near Camp Hale is Heavily Guarded

Cliff Thompson

Lightning has a habit of finding things it shouldn't.

Sunday night near Camp Hale,
lightning ignited a tree, and fire crews are a more than a little
hesitant to extinguish it.

Indeed, the electric genie found a place in the forest firefighters fear
to tread They don't want to send aircraft to drop water or slurry,
either.

It's a single "snag" smoldering in the midst of unexploded
World War II ordinance near a place soldiers called "Nazi
Village." Soldiers poured tons of ordnance on that target during
training exercises decades ago, and as much as 10 percent of that still
may be unexploded.

That's a problem for firefighters. They can't go in by foot to fight the
fire for fear of setting of an explosion; and they can't use slurry
bombers or helicopters for fear water could dislodge rocks, setting off
ordinance and possibly knocking an airplane from the sky.

To view the entire article please go to the Vail Daily website
at:
http://www.vaildaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS
and look for the July 8th article.

Please note new phone number and address below.

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Aimee R. Houghton                                 

Associate Director, CPEO

1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1000

Washington, DC  20036

tel: 202-452-8039; fax: 202-452-8095

Email: aimeeh@cpeo.org

www.cpeo.org

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