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Tire fire just keeps going and going <br /> Candice McFarland Authorities won't determine a cleanup plan for <br /> The Tracy Press the site until the fire is completely out, said <br /> David Schmidt, a public information officer with <br /> Official watchdogs of the Tracy tire fire call it the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,the <br /> the fire that just won't die. group that oversees the tire pile. <br /> Seven months and three days after a spark "Everyone expected it to be finished by now, <br /> started 8 million tires burning south of town, and it's still going," Schmidt said. "It's just <br /> isolated sections remain ablaze and narrow impossible to predict." <br /> columns of light-gray smoke rise steadily from Foley has the job of traveling to the pit, near <br /> the 54-acre S.F. Royster Tire Disposal yard. Teichert Construction off MacArthur Drive, <br /> The watchdogs who visit the site every few every couple of weeks to take photos,track the <br /> weeks have learned to avoid the question of fire's progress and wait for it to die out. <br /> when the fire will be extinguished. "It looks like it's reduced today," she said <br /> "I've got no projections on when it will be Tuesday. "But when it's really rainy or windy, it <br /> out,"said Kasey Foley, a specialist for San flares up and then goes down again." <br /> Joaquin County Environmental Health Services. Once the smoldering tire fire is out,the real <br /> "No sooner do you get a date for when it will work will begin.Agencies will then send out <br /> be out than that date passes," said Jim Spagnole, crews to do an environmental assessment and <br /> Tires continue to burn at the S.F. Royster Tire Disposal yard a spokesman for the California Environmental <br /> south of Tracy. The tire pit began burning Aug. 7. Protection Agency. See TIRES,page A8 <br /> 111111111111 <br />