Huge explosion in Rome!
(twitter.com)
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The first fire picture on the left of the twitter thread was yesterday, a junkyard, probably full of oil and tires. These junkyard fires can persist quite a while, especially if there are big piles of whatever--close to me there is a paper recycling plant which has had several week-long fires of cardboard bales. Perhaps there were lithium batteries or other things that shouldn't be there.
We had a junkyard fire near a town I lived in a few years ago - old cars most still had batteries in them, contained fluids and had tires on. Of course the interiors were full of cloth and plastics. The place smoked for a couple weeks and smelled for months. It was almost a year before everything was removed - probably to a landfill.
Yes. Probably the cleanest burning are the pallet yards. Even the paper fires are eye-watering, and everything else has petrochemicals and is much worse. I live on the edge of a big area with every kind of junkyard and can just guess who is on fire by the smoke.
Ugh - hope there are good things about living there to offset that negative.
Oh yes. I actually like living in a fringe area, because we are largely ignored by everyone. Our houses are old but pretty good and we have trees and big lots.