Small Fire at Base Draws Much Attention
Dozens of firefighters converged on a smoldering clothes dryer at the Wakefield Gymnasium at the Port Hueneme Navy base about 9 a.m. Tuesday.
The massive response of firefighters from the Naval Construction Battalion and the Oxnard and the Ventura County fire departments, was in part because a gas line was ruptured about the same time that the dryer began smoking, said Linda Wadley, a base spokeswoman.
The gas line was repaired and the small fire that started in the clothes dryer was put out without incident, Wadley said.
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