Monday, February 19, 2007

 

Calif. EPA consultant says Countywide fuels 2 fires

BY Paul E. Kostyu
The Canton Repository

COLUMBUS - The Countywide landfill in southern Stark County is on fire, according to a consultant’s preliminary report.

Todd Thalhamer, a landfill-fire expert for the California Environmental Protection Agency, said in a report released late Friday that the Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility in Pike Township “is experiencing a classic metal fire and smoldering fire.”

He said neither fire “is the characteristic underground fire documented in the literature or seen in the field,” but he does not “anticipate a catastrophic event occurring.”...Read more.