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Saturday, December 9, 2000 <br /> Tamma Adamek, Metro Editor <br /> Phone:546-8275 <br /> Fax: 547-8186 <br /> F-mail:tadamek@recordnet.com <br /> Please see RECALL,Back page <br /> Y <br /> Tracy Press photo by GLENN MOORS <br /> WORK STEAMING AHEAD:The RoysterTire Disposal fire is expect-, <br /> :?d to be extinguished Monday after burning for two years. <br /> Tile fire being douser,.! <br /> ('he Record als being flushed to nearby <br /> ,)roundwater. <br /> TRACY—Tracy firefighters con- ° Fire crews lave been pouring <br /> timed Friday to fight a bre that has <br /> burned 7 million tires since August o f <br /> Water and ra3m on the fire through- <br /> 1998. out the d d <br /> State engineer Todd 'I'halhamer InEn <br /> g.ilieers from the Californian <br /> said crews have used about 200,000 teg�'ated Waste Management= <br /> gallons of water so far in an attempt �rtt, which is spending $365,00( <br /> to douse the remnants of the blaze to extinguish <br /> ;tinguish the smoldering tiro <br /> and will likelyextinguish it Monday p said that the bottom of the pi <br /> The Fre at the Itnyster Tire I)is wltt e covered with a layer of so <br /> to winter,and that the area wJ <br /> Posal pit was allowed to burn down he tF-sted for contaminants in it <br /> to minimize the risk of toxic materi- sprir,, <br />