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RINGS OF FIRE Site Location & History hazards, water supply, access, storage methods, and available equipment. Site location is self explanatory; it lets you know how to access the facility. But what Salvage yards provide an example. There about site history? Knowing the history of have been a number of tire fires in a scrap tire site will alert you to potential California which have involved tires stored risks and hazards. in salvage, pull-apart, and auto dismantling facilities. Access around A tire pile on the East Coast was junked vehicles is problematic. A tire fire reportedly built over a chemical waste in American Canyon revealed whole tires dump. The chemicals were leaching into on their rims stored with scrap metal, the ground water supply. It was decided pressure cylinders, 55 gallon drums, and that the chemical waste should be pumped fuel tanks. The fire involved to the surface. With nowhere to put it, approximately 500-600 scrap tires. Small another decision was made to spray the explosions from cylinders and tires were chemical waste on top of the tires. an additional hazard to fire fighting personnel. Another case in point is the St. Amable tire fire in Quebec. While fighting the Tire Pile Composition tire fire, fire fighters discovered discarded underground fuel tanks as well as Also note the composition of the scrap automobile fuel tanks. They discovered tire pile. Are whole, bundled, and this when the fuel vapors in each tank shredded tires stored on site? Is there expanded and exploded. adequate separation between piles? Is other material stored within the tires? As a fire fighter, wouldn't you like to Are the tires still on their rims? know that these hazards exist before you start fire fighting operations? Wouldn't Estimating Tire Pile Size the identification of these hazards, beforehand, alter your attitude and The number and size of a tire pile can be response to these scrap tire fires? estimated mathematically. A standard container load of passenger car tires Type of Operation contains about 1,100 scrap tires. This is dependent on how long the tires sit in the The type of operation is important to your truck. Tires laid on top of one another developing pre-incident plan. Is your tire will compress, allowing more tires per pile dumped (unmanaged) on a piece of load. The number of tires in a container rural property? Or is the tire pile part of load is also dependent on the size of the an active recycling center? The tires. significance between the type of operation could include differences in exposures, 38