I’m originally from that area, lol! I never saw it on fire, though.
Nor did I.
But I tell you a little history. home to a very leaky refinery, across from LTV Steel, upriver from the lake. It positively oozed oil.
I spent earned money on interrupting the flow of oil into the river with a series of pumps. The crud we brought up was sold to a local asphalt company.
Just when we thought we had a corner on the project, more oil would flow onto our land from an adjacent property.
The past few years have seen a marked reduction in oil moving into the water.
BTW, the Steelhead season just opened on the Brule River in Wisconsin...