
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 12, 1994                   TAG: 9408030020
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Todd Jackson
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

FIRE, EXPLOSION DESTROY TRAILER; NO ONE INJURED

Fire destroyed a trailer in which 3,000 rounds of ammunition exploded Monday on Virginia 711 near Bernard's Landing at Smith Mountain Lake.

The ammunition blew up in the intense heat and "sounded like firecrackers going off," said Bennie Russell, fire marshal with the Franklin County Public Safety Department.

Paul Fix, who rented the trailer, was inside asleep when the fire started around 5:30 a.m. but managed to escape without injury when he was alerted by a smoke detector, Russell said. An electrical problem is believed to have caused the blaze.

Russell, an acquaintance of Fix, said Fix was a hunter.

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