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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.28] on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 01:25:43 :

In Reply to: Re: My garbage man says........... posted by Milo in Pa [71.116.27.25] on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 22:28:06 :

When I moved to Everett in 1982, there was a guy who had been "accepting" tires from all over the area, saying he was going to build an "energy plant" to burn them for fuel. He had 20 acres covered 20 feet deep with tires. His plan fell through, he skipped town, and the county took it for back taxes.

The tire pile caught fire early one Monday morning and the fire department quickly put it out. A month later it caught fire again early one Monday morning and that time the fire department was slow to arrive and declared that it was too hot to fight. They also said it must have been started by "kids smoking". I've always suspected that during the intervening month, the fire chief got word from the county commissioners that they needed to make that tire pile go away.

It burned all winter. When the wind was calm, soot stuck to every surface all over the city. Nobody made any attempt to put it out. Oily goo from the cooking tires ran into the Snohomish river in a steady stream. Nobody called the EPA. Eventually all the rubber burned up and they covered what was left with dirt. Last I heard they were going to build an office park on it.



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