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So How Many Acres Did Burn on LANL Property MacMillan?
133 Acres Burned on Lab (LANL) Property
Las Conchas: The majority of the burned acreage, though, was due to backburn
By John Severance (LA Monitor)
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 7:44 pm (Updated: July 24, 4:23 am)
Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory were insistent throughout that the Los Conchas Fire only came onto LANL and Department of Energy property twice.
The first came when the fire jumped over NM 4 onto TA-49, causing a one-acre fire that was quickly extinguished June 27, the second day of the fire.
The second came on July 2 when a squirrel touched contacts in an electrical substation’s transformer at TA-53, the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) Facility substation and that fire was put out within a short period.
On Friday, the Las Conchas Burned Area Emergency Response team released the acreage burned by jurisdiction. The chart said that 133 acres burned on DOE and LANL property.
So what’s the story?
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"So what’s the story? "
It is called a backburn. What is so hard to understand about that? Give it a rest.
With the reported LANL fire costs at $54 million, the 133 acres works out to $406,000 per acre.
Pretty expensive real estate "landscaping", if you ask me. Is LANS padding the costs of this fire operation to squeeze more money out of the system?
With the reported LANL fire costs at $54 million, the 133 acres works out to $406,000 per acre.
Pretty expensive real estate "landscaping", if you ask me. Is LANS padding the costs of this fire operation to squeeze more money out of the system?
Oh please. The costs were for firefighting (which apparently worked pretty well for the Lab property), post-fire flood risk mitigation, repairs due to smoke damage, and the report pay the employees received to stay away. The costs weren't to pay for each acre of burned land.
With a 2% retroactive increase in the overhead rate to pay for it, it's clear LANS isn't getting all they need or want out of DOE for this...they're getting it out of the programs. Less mission completion...more overhead...on top of the incredible expenses LANS incurs just to exist. That's the travesty.
What I'm getting out of this, is that MacMillan will continue the charade to deceive the public with misinformation and half-truths. Anastasio taught him well.
What I'm getting out of this, is that MacMillan will continue the charade to deceive the public with misinformation and half-truths. Anastasio taught him well.
July 27, 2011 4:01 PM
Get a clue. The public doesn't give a crap about LANL, except when the Los Alamos Study Group gets a small fraction of them riled up about something.
I drove the LANL perimeter today and saw absolutely no evidence of burning on LANL property. The road (NM 4) was a clear dividing line between burned and unburned. Somebody did a superhuman job of preventing fire jumping the roadway.
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