Offshore fire destroys UAVs, building

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Offshore fire destroys UAVs, building
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jan 26, 2009 16:28:59 EST

SAN DIEGO — Federal fire investigators are looking into the cause of a Jan. 22 fire that destroyed a building housing and about a half-dozen unmanned aerial vehicles at an offshore training area, a Navy spokesman said Monday.

No one was in the warehouse and classroom building when the fire broke out about 2 a.m. at an old airstrip on San Clemente Island, said Cmdr. Greg Geisen, a Naval Special Warfare Command spokesman in Coronado, Calif.

Federal fire crews assigned on the island responded to the fire, which destroyed the building that served as an UAV training facility for Naval Special Warfare Group 1, Geisen said.

The fire was extinguished about 5 a.m.

“There were probably some half-dozen UAVs in the building, along with control equipment,” he said.


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