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To: bigbob

Maybe it will outlast the world’s longest tire fire.
“The Heyope tyre dump near Knighton, Powys, would appear to be the longest burning tyre fire in the world. Started in 1989 it continued to burn until at least 2004.

The tyre dump with an estimated total of 10 million tyres lay in a deep wooded valley in the Welsh borders. According to reports they tyres were packed too densely for firefighters to extinguish and there were no flames, but temperature readings confirm the intense heat generated below the surface.”


4 posted on 05/24/2024 9:21:45 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rxh4n1

Like those coal-seam fires that dot the world.


5 posted on 05/24/2024 9:32:49 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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