Three people have been injured in a fire at the main propellant-manufacturing facility for the U.S. Department of Defense, and production at the Virginia site has been suspended.
The Army remained silent Monday on whether live ammunition was in use during a training exercise at Fort Carson three days ago, the same day a fire started on the post, spread to private land and destroyed three homes.
Firefighters contained a blaze near Fort Carson Sunday after it destroyed three homes and several vehicles, though they still had not determined how the fire started at the Army post during a training exercise, officials said.
Virginia will conduct air-quality monitoring for the first time at a school down the road from an Army ammunition plant that regularly conducts open burns of hazardous waste.