My Memories and Thoughts about the NSGA Kamiseya Fire (Guest Post), By Fred Ames

The incinerator that caused the fire had been recently installed to burn confidential material. A few months earlier, while on a mid watch, another “M” brancher and I had gone “dumpster diving” in the trash outside the building because we had nothing else to do. This trash was routinely picked up by a local (Japanese owned) company for disposal. When we were looking through the trash we found some TS Kimbo material and confidential log books there! We immediately reported this to the duty officer, the trash was sealed, and command installed the incinerator and vented it up through an interior wall to the outside. The local company no longer collected material from the tunnel area. A few days before the tunnel fire the incinerator had blown back and injured one man. There had also been reports – scuttlebutt – that the walls where the vent pipe had been installed had been getting very warm when the incinerator was in use. LTC Eugene Chu Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen MAJ Ken Landgren Maj Kim Patterson Maj (Join to see) CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana Capt Dwayne Conyers Capt Gregory Prickett MSgt Steve Sweeney MSG Stan Hutchison MSgt Michael Bischoff 1SG (Join to see) SSgt Richard Kensinger SP5 Dennis Loberger PO1 Tony Holland PO1 Brian Austin CPL LaForest Gray SrA John Monette SPC Kevin Ford A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney