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The U.S. military said it's finished draining millions of gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex in Hawaii that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor's ...
The fuel stored at the Red Hill facility is used by ships and aircraft based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam. The facility's location within the Red Hill ridge about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 kilometers) from Pearl Harbor was selected to allow fuel to flow from the storage tanks to Pearl Harbor by gravity. [14] [15] [16] [17]
The November 2021 spill poisoned the Navy's water system serving 93,000 people in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. US military to begin draining leaky fuel tank facility that poisoned ...
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. HI-123, "U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage System, extending from North Road to Icarus Way, Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI", 101 photos, 139 data pages, 20 photo caption pages; Red Hill weekly – The Museum of Flight Digital Collections
The report was prompted by a spill of 19, 000 gallons of jet fuel from the Navy's underground Red Hill facility that in November 2021 made its way into and tainted the Navy's Oahu water system ...
The 1969 USS Enterprise fire was a major fire and series of explosions that broke out aboard USS Enterprise on January 14, 1969, off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii.After a Zuni rocket detonated under a plane's wing, the ensuing fire touched off more munitions, blowing holes in the flight deck that allowed burning jet fuel to enter the ship.
The Navy on Thursday issued written reprimands to three now-retired military officers for their roles in the spill of jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021 but did not fire ...
Pearl Harbor naval base. The West Loch is the arm of Pearl Harbor on the left side of the image. In May 1944, the West Loch area of Pearl Harbor was unusually crowded with various vessels as it was being used as a staging area for the upcoming Operation Forager, the US invasion to retake Japanese-occupied Marianas and Palau Islands.