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Date Taken:

December 1, 1981

Photograph By:

NSF

License Type:

Public Domain

On December 1, 1981, the Publics Works Garage (Vehicle Maintenance Facility - VMF) burned. It remains the worst fire in the history of the US Antarctic Program.

"The building housed vehicles and heavy equipment repair facilities along with a technical library, shops for sheet metal work, welding and fabrication, and other machine work, and a battery room. Five vehicles---two passenger vans, the Captain's jeep, a dump truck, and a new fire truck (!) were inside and were lost in the fire. Three firefighters sustained minor injuries; two were treated for smoke inhalation and one for a facial cut." - The Antarctic Journal, 1981.

The cause of the fire was a recently installed incinerating toilet.

Associated Keywords

Fire, Historical, History, NSF, Public Domain, VMF

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