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To: Jill who wrote (538)	11/16/2001 3:46:37 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 827

"Suspicious substance" was ash from brush fire... Friday November 16 11:53 AM ET Falling Ash Scares Tennessee Town dailynews.yahoo.com CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A powdery substance which fell on parts of this Tennessee city prompting emergency measures and a test for anthrax turned out to be ash from a brush fire, officials said on Friday. Residents of two subdivisions became alarmed at dusk on Thursday when they found something white and granular on cars and lawns. Some in the neighborhoods said they thought it came from one or two low-flying aircraft. Residents were told to stay indoors and turn off heating or air conditioning, and persons who tried to enter the area were kept out. Though initial tests by the fire department found no sign of anthrax officials had considered canceling Friday classes at an elementary school in the affected area. But the office of Mayor John Piper said the substance was finally traced to falling ash from a ``controlled burn'' in a rural area near the city, which abuts the sprawling Fort Campbell military reservation in south-central Kentucky.

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