Stench From Smoky Junkyard Fire Spreads Over Philly and NJ
A massive tire blaze in Southwest Philadelphia sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky over Center City and other nearby neighborhoods Tuesday afternoon, the smell continued Wednesday morning
You might smell something foul as you walk out the door Wednesday morning as the acrid smell of smoke from a large junkyard fire in Southwest Philadelphia spreads into other parts of Philadelphia -- including Center City -- and South Jersey neighborhoods.
"It's kind of like a burnt rubber that's just wafting through the air," said NBC10 reporter Randy Gyllenhaal.
"I still smell it man," Joe Jamison said Wednesday morning in Center City, where you could see a haze in the air.
The blaze started shortly before 3:30 p.m. at a facility in the southwest section of Philadelphia, and the black smoke reached hundreds of feet into the air and began spreading out over the city. Smoke from the massive tire fire at South 61st street could be seen for miles Tuesday afternoon -- as far away as Bucks County -- before it was eventually controlled by city firefighters a couple hours later.
White smoke, however, continued to rise from the smoldering remains more than 14 hours later. The stink of the smoke could be smelled in Philadelphia's Center City, South Philadelphia, Point Breeze, Graduate Hospital, University City and other neighborhoods. The light winds were also pushing the stench into parts of South Jersey.
Dr. Darren Mareiniss, with Einstein Health, said "It's hard to say" what the health ramifications from the smoky blaze could be "since it’s a big trash heap what exactly is in the air."
"It’s gonna irritate peoples airwaves," Mareiniss said. "So I wonder about those people who have, let's say, asthma and get a whiff of this and then have bronchospasm, they have their airwaves clamped down because of the irritation."
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You could also still see the smoke as you drove around the city Wednesday morning.
An 8 mph breeze on Wednesday morning was working against pushing the smoke out, NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Bill Henley said. A stronger breeze later in the day after a front moves through should help dissipate the smoky haze.
About 100 firefighters were battling the inferno by 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. No one was hurt.
The cause of the fire has yet to be revealed.
This was just the latest junk blaze in the Philadelphia region in recent days: A tire fire burned in the Port Richmond neighborhood and a junkyard caught fire in West Philadelphia on Nov. 1. And, a warehouse burned in Marcus Hook on Nov. 2.
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