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Wednesday <br /> August 12, 1998 <br /> 460 <br />,ord (D 1998 Stockton Newspapers Inc. <br /> .In 11 Mother Lode Record Web site:wwwrecordnet.com <br /> that forced the nation to take a 90 days in jail should the boys be a- <br /> harder look at children and guns. released before they tum 21. Please see SHOOTINGS,At0— <br /> Tire fire site declared S.J. emergency <br /> By Tamma Adamek clean up environmental disasters. Environmental Protection <br /> and Rob Nelson County emergency officials Agency officials hope to take sam- <br /> Record staff writers asked for the declaration at 1:30 ples of the groundwater near the <br /> a.m. Saturday — hours after the site as early as Friday-, after that, <br /> TRACY — Smoke boiling into fire broke out — when they real- the agency will spend a few more <br /> the air from a tire fire near Tracy ized the potential cost of cleaning weeks taking soil samples from <br /> continued to subside Tuesday as up the 30-acre tire-storage pit and beneath the molten tire mass. <br /> county and federal officials began coping with health risks could be It is the water sample, though, <br /> planning how to pay for cleaning more than the county can afford. that could quickly determine <br /> up the mess. whether the Tracy fire site quali- <br /> The San Joaquin County Board An estimated 7 million tires are <br /> q h' fies for Superfund money. <br /> of Supervisors voted unanimously burning in the former quarry Superfund, a federal trust fund, <br /> Tuesday to declare the site of the owned by S.F. Royster Tire allocates money to help deal with <br /> 5-day-old tire fire a local emer- Disposal. The fire is expected to environmental situations that pose <br /> gency, a step required to secure smolder south of Tracy for days <br /> federal Superfund money used to or weeks to come. Please see FIRE,A9 <br /> I 1 -, <br /> vri 3� t r:A S luEL10dU11 5'.lE� rti rni � •rT• -- <br />