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Saturday, August 7, 1999 ■ Stockton C2 911 C5 The Record Obituaries C5 Lodi/Lode C3 Public Pulse C6 Phone:943-6568 Manteca/Tracy C4 Business C8 Fax:547-8186 1,40 E-mail: newsroom@recordnet.com ca Costs mount fyear= ld til Vfire r ',........1--. �.. By Ben van der Meer the most expensive part of the 8 million tires stored at the S.F. there won't be a detailed analysis Tracy Press fire." Royster Tire Disposal pit off of the fire's cost until after the Wit` San Joaquin County Environ- MacArthur Drive, south of Tracy. cleanup begins. TRACY—After countless hours ,F - of monitoring, testing and waiting, mental Health specialist Kasey After a brief attempt to contain There is no target the Folrysaid she's checked the fire the blaze, crews from TracyRural fires end or the b of the state agencies keeping an interest- ' Y g every one to two weeks since it Fie Department abandoned the cleanup process, Frith said. ed eye on the still-smoldering "We hope it's b the end of the � 4 � •`"'� ^ Royster tire fire one year after it man. effort and allowed the 54-acre pit P Y y started continue to calculate what Figuring the flat fee the division to burn, which the tires have Year," he said. j1; E charges for special projects like done ever since. Although aerial photos of the r, the massive blaze has actually � ro p P 1 � -• _- cost. the fire, Foley said her monitoring Estimate after estimate on fire site show vehicles of some "I'd hate to gay exactly what it alone has cost more than $10,000. when the fire might burn out has kind parked inside the pit, both . ~- 1 will cost until we find out the But only a percentage of that, been discarded by agencies mon- Frith and officials with the EPA lay of the land in there," said she said, is paid for by taxpayers. itoring the smoldering blaze, said no crews will enter the area 1. John Frith, spokesman for the The rest is billed to the estate of including the waste board, the until the fire stops. California Integrated Waste the property. Environmental Protection Agency Past history on tire-pit fires Tracy Press photo by GLENN MOORE Management Board, which over- A spark from electrical equip- and county environmental health. indicate that the Royster mess STILL GOING STRONG: The Royster tire pit continues to smolder a sees discarded tire pits. "The ment started the blaze on the Crews visit the site regularly to won't be cheap to clean up. year after the blaze began. The remains leave a black scab on the cleanup, though, will probably be afternoon of Aug. 7, 1998, igniting monitor the flames, Frith said, but Please see FIRE,C4 landscape near Tracy Airport.