Dyess fire chief offers new details on last month’s massive B-1B bomber fire
By Rachel S. Cohen
Thursday, May 12
The fire chief at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, on Tuesday provided the first public recounting of the effort to extinguish a burning B-1B Lancer bomber after its engine caught fire last month.
In a May 10 release, Chief Master Sgt. Charles Clawson of the 7th Civil Engineer Squadron described the seven-minute emergency response, which began at 10:03 p.m. when the base’s fire and emergency services unit responded to a report of a B-1B ablaze on the flightline.
Flames engulfed the bomber’s entire left side and stretched as high as 75 feet into the air, Clawson said. Firefighters believed the blaze was coming from one of the jet’s four engines, which had exploded during routine maintenance.
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