Tyndall Air Force Base Controlled Burn

   MEDIA RELEASE

  Tyndall Air Force Base

325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs ~ 501 Illinois Avenue, Tyndall AFB, FL 32403-5425

Contact Public Affairs, (850) 283-4500, FAX (850) 283-3225

FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

Release No. 02-06-14/006

Feb. 06, 2014

Controlled Burn

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. –The 325th Civil Engineer Squadron, Natural Resources Flight, is scheduled to conduct a controlled burn south of U.S. 98 on Tyndall Air Force Base, Feb. 6, between the hours of 4 p.m. and midnight, and Feb. 7, between the hours of midnight. and 9 a.m., weather permitting. The burn will occur west of Research Road, east of the sub-scale aerial target launch ramp and extend to Crooked Island.

            Prescribed fires are necessary to reduce fuels and the potential for wildfires that could impact Tyndall’s mission to “train and project unrivaled combat power.”

            Media with questions about the prescribed fire can contact 2^nd Lt. Christopher Bowyer-Meeder, 325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs, at (850) 283-4500 or Tyndall’s Command Post at (850) 283-2155.

            Information on controlled burns at Tyndall can be viewed here (http://www.tyndall.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123376646).

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