Massive Woolsey Fire Began On Contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory
CLOSE TO SITE OF PARTIAL MELTDOWN
Electric Substation at SSFL Tripped 2 Minutes Before Fire Reported
For Immediate Release: November 12, 2018
Contact: Denise Duffield, 310-339-9676 or dduffield@psr-la.org, Melissa Bumstead rmelissabumstead@
The tremendously destructive Woolsey Fire has been widely reported as beginning “near” the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL or Rocketdyne), but it appears that the fire began on the Rocketdyne property itself. Cal Fire identifies the fire location as E Street and Alfa Road, a location that is in fact on SSFL. It was recently reported that the “Chatsworth