Evacuations were a precaution until the air could be tested to ensure the area was safe, Guthrie said.

“It’s just to make sure that the fire wasn’t giving off any fumes that would be harmful, the same as you would do with any fire,” Guthrie said.

Evacuated in the crash were Arlan and Pat Potter, who live on 2nd Avenue in rural Oxford, about a half-mile from the site of the crash.

At home, they saw smoke, and something that sounded like a sonic boom.

“But it was obviously more than that,” Arlan said. “It shook the windows and everything.”

The jet was based at Truax Field in Madison, but had taken off from Volk Field before the crash, Guthrie said.

She said she didn’t immediately know how many training flights are flown each week by the 115th, but she said that crashes are few and far between.

“This is the first in my 20 years here,” Guthrie said. “Our pilots are trained, and our pilots are safe.”

Jon Anderson, a spokesman for the Air National Guard in Langley, Va., said he didn’t know how many training crashes take place in the U.S. each year.