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TIRES: Still burning <br /> 1 <br /> (Continued from page Al) The fire began Aug. 7 at the <br /> solve that problem. "There's a S.F. Royster Tire Disposal off <br /> layer along the top,like on gravy, South MacArthur Drive near <br /> that's hardened a little," he said. Tracy Municipal Airport. It was <br /> "The rain may wash off some started by a spark from weed- <br /> surface ash, but the congealed cutting equipment and has <br /> skin seems like it's mostly imper- burned 8 million old tires, initial- <br /> vious to water." ly creating a plume of smoke that <br /> The Integrated Waste could be seen from as far away <br /> Management Board, a state as Sacramento. <br /> agency, said through spokesman The pit's owner,Silas"Chuck" <br /> Lanny Clavecilla that contamina- Royster,was indicted on an unre- <br /> tion is a possibility. lated charge of bankruptcy fraud <br /> "If there isn't sufficient shortly after the fire started, but <br /> drainage or treatment of the died of cancer on Aug. 18. <br /> area, then that is a considera- The fire also sparked a bill in <br /> tion," Clavecilla said. Both the the state Legislature to allow the <br /> board, which monitors tire state to clean up illegal tire piles, <br /> farms,and the EPA will take part but then-Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed <br /> in a cleanup project. the bill. <br />