Friday, November 05, 2010
Forest Fires At Ft. Knox
KENTUCKY...
Military exercises at Fort Knox coupled with severe drought have caused fires that the post garrison commander says have burned as much as 13,000 acres or about 20 square miles in the last couple of weeks.Col. Eric Schwartz told The Courier-Journal that fires have been burning on the post almost every day, creating conditions that probably haven't happened since 1987.
Some Louisville air monitors registered high fine-particle levels as a result of the fires, but Schwartz says the post can't stop training troops, especially with 3,500 about to deploy to the war in Afghanistan.Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District spokesman Matt Stull says the smoke caused the air quality index to reach 183, the highest in at least eight years.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:13 AM 
