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

DATE: SATURDAY, December 10, 1994                   TAG: 9412120049
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: GLASGOW                                 LENGTH: Short

FIRE IN NATIONAL FOREST CONTROLLED; 110 ACRES BURN

Firefighters said a fire that consumed 110 acres next to the Appalachian Trail in the George Washington National Forest was contained at dusk Friday.

The fire was discovered late Thursday afternoon on mid-slope at Saddle Gap in Amherst County, which is near the site of a fire that consumed 225 acres in August 1993. A hunter's fire that was not extinguished properly is the suspected cause, Forest Service spokesman W. Terry Smith said.

A crew of Virginia Military Institute cadets worked through the night Thursday to stop the fire's progress, and three 20-person crews were sent to the site Friday.

By 4:30 p.m., firefighters had contained the fire and established a line around the burning acres, Smith said.

The fire was in hardwood trees and mountain laurel shrubbery. No structures were in danger.

by CNB