09/08/2005: Controlled Burn at Landfill
The MFD was paged yesterday about 1 PM to a controlled burn at the landfill. Apparently, the landfill employees burned one of their rubbish piles, but it got a little too hot. That wasn't in itself a big problem, except that the rubbish pile was fairly close to a large pile of tires. Now that was a problem.
The landfill folks decided that they didn't want the tires to catch fire, so they called us out to help cool things off. We sprayed a little water and foam and then the landfill workers buried the rest of the rubbish with bulldozers. The tire pile was safe and sound :-)
The big excitement for the nozzle operator was trying to spray a rat that kept poking his head out of the rubbish pile. I was on the pump, so I didn't see if he was successful.
