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Crews Make Progress Battling Fire In Massive Mountain Of Construction Debris

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 26 Mar, 2016 02:12 PM
  • Crews Make Progress Battling Fire In Massive Mountain Of Construction Debris
KENTVILLE, N.S. — The fire chief of a small town in Nova Scotia says crews are entering the final stages of battling a blaze at a waste processing and treatment site that's been burning for five days.
 
Ryan MacEachern, chief of the Kentville Volunteer Fire Department, says the towering mound of construction debris that stands several storeys high is being doused with water and excavators have slowly been moving the debris into separate piles.
 
MacEachern says bulldozers will flatten out the doused debris — which will end up standing about six metres high and covering the space of two arenas — and it will be covered with sand.
 
MacEachern says he expects to pull out firefighting equipment by dusk Saturday and move to a monitoring stage.
 
He says crews have been overwhelmed by the support from the community, who have delivered enough food to the station to fill more than eight banquet tables. 
 
Roughly 13 fire departments have been helping to extinguish the blaze since it ignited inside the 90 metre-high pile at the site owned by South Mountain Construction and Debris Recycling Ltd. on Tuesday. 

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