Fire ignites twice for trailer hauling trash to Countywide landfill

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GARBAGE TRUCK FIRE Canton Township and East Sparta firefighters battle a blaze atop a tractor-trailer headed for the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township. It was the second time the trailer caught fire Wednesday, investigators said. Repository Photo - Richard C. Bixler

By Lori Monsewicz
Canton Repository Staff Writer
Thursday, January 19, 2006

PIKE TWP. - Smoke continued to rise from a load of burning trash as firefighters allowed a truck driver to reconnect to the burning tractor-trailer and drive to a nearby landfill Wednesday.

The trailer fire outside East Sparta Fire Station No. 2 was the second fire Wednesday on that same truck. . . Read more