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September 23, 1999 <br /> 46C <br /> Record Web site:www recordnet.com <br /> e- coru01999 Stockton Newspapers Inc. <br /> ockton San Joaquin -� Mother Lade _„ . . <br /> sling ignites <br /> ® HEALTH RISK: <br /> M Smoke heads <br /> x for foothills <br /> ® NEW LAWS? <br /> Cleanup funds <br /> D r I! I <br /> being sought <br /> } — Page Ail <br /> ® IN WESTLEY: <br /> Thousands of <br /> tires burning, but <br /> there are million,- <br /> ByAbblee Dutcher <br /> rd Staff Writer <br /> ' WESTLEY— L.tghtning touch#m <br /> off a massive tire fire ear <br /> Wednesday, sending a plume <br /> f. <br /> black smoke 3,000 feet into t= <br /> Valley sky. <br /> The blaze ignited about 4 a.r <br /> in a ravine at the 40-acre Fill— <br /> tire <br /> illtire pile in the hills west <br /> r:+ Interstate 5 in Stanislaus Coun■ <br /> authorities said. There are abc- <br /> 7 million tires in the pile. <br /> No injuries were reported, am <br /> no evacuations were ordered. <br /> "With that many tires tnvoty <br /> Y it'll be a few days before we ge <br /> under control, and we'll proba— <br /> �, be out there at least a week," s- <br /> - ,. Jesse Garza, a spokesman for <br /> 7, California Department of Forest' <br /> and Fire Protection, one of <br /> t b ql <br /> agencies that responded to <br /> fire. A similar fire near Tracy--- <br /> still <br /> racy—still burning more than a Y' <br /> "' " `��' i 4' r r. 'r--✓ after it started. <br /> - r The 2,000-degree blaze Poi <br /> - f no immediate health risk to ro.. <br /> dents in Westley, about three rYt— <br /> ' to the east, or to homes and b,— <br /> r� <br /> ne <br /> * i sses in cities along Interstau <br /> Smoke rose, drifted west <br /> dissipated before enveloping <br /> businesses or fire crews on <br /> ground. <br /> "So far, the winds have b- <br /> 1- ,U favorable, and we havedt had <br /> . ,� {� ' � •� • '"� t change in the pattern,and we' <br /> Steve Hall,we don't ' a <br /> . � r �•' f `r ;y I get any' <br /> tenant with the Patterson <br /> Department, said at the scene. <br /> ';•.- ,n Emergency personnel and c(— <br /> officials set up an operations c <br /> 3 3 in Mcxleslo."a.Vauuiu._ <br /> to do if the wind shifts and c <br /> -r tions change. <br /> "It's in a pretty remote <br /> ` �y right now, and the wind is Pm <br /> y ing it from more-populated k— <br /> Record photo by MICHAEL McCOLLUM ff the smoke does get to the <br /> DEJA VU:A jet-black plume of smoke can be seen for fire Wednesday at the fire dump in Stanislaus County lic, the best thing for people <br /> miles as tires burn in Westley.Lightning ignited the huge The fire is reminiscent of one last year near Tracy. Please see TIRE FIRE,Back <br />