Blast knocks AFN radio station off the air

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Blast knocks AFN radio station off the air
By Mark St. Clair, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, April 3, 2008

Armed Forces Network officials cannot definitively say when its AM radio station will be back on the air in the German state of Hessen after an explosion at a transmitter site interrupted programming Tuesday.

Three Germans were injured Tuesday around 12:30 p.m. in an accident during a routine generator check at the Weiskirchen transmitter site.

“Everyone’s doing OK,” AFN-Europe public affairs officer George Smith said, adding that the two Department of Public Works employees and an AFN-Hessen technician were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

The three were treated for minor shock, smoke inhalation and minor burns. They have all been released and are doing fine, Smith said.

As for the AM radio programming, Mark Vagnerini, AFN-Europe’s executive officer, could only say that AFN hopes to have the signal up and running sometime next week.


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