Dumps Canada

A fire burning for more than a week in a tire dump the size of 18 football fields is threatening to become a major environmental disaster here in southern Ontario province, officials say. If just half of the estimated 14 million tires in the dump were to liquefy in the fire's intense heat, one Canadian expert on tire recycling has said, they could produce more oil than last year's notorious Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

A fire burning for more than a week in a tire dump the size of 18 football fields is threatening to become a major environmental disaster here in southern Ontario province, officials say. If just half of the estimated 14 million tires in the dump were to liquefy in the fire's intense heat, one Canadian expert on tire recycling has said, they could produce more oil than last year's notorious Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.