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FIRE flames have burrowed i W The amide the tare stack with dee"e day, leaving only Continued from Al "You Clln't even S afld ash visible by late. a risk to human hail h. afl6aais Tuesdac said. The money is especially 'AD the surface fuel has bee intended for cases of em&onmen- agencies have ever burned up," Padilla said. "Now it tal disaster that no local govern- (dealt with jeverything below that's sti– ment could afford to handle Inde- afire Of this just everything pendently. magnitude." Once the interior tires hax Mike Codaell, assistant coordi- cooled, state and federal envirot nator of emergency services for — Eric Lamoureux, mental agencies will begin the county, said cleanup will be Integrated Waste Management detailed assessment of ho wily. Board spokesman California's biggest-ever tire R "Most likely, it could become a has affected the environment, sa Superfund site;" he said. Bill Lewis, on-scene coordinat, Neither EPA nor California Local authorities stood down for the Environmental Protectic Integrated Waste Management from emergency status late Agency. Of greatest concern is d Board officials could speculate Sunday. Since then, sheriff's subterranean water table, lyh how much the cleanup might deputies have made periodic dangerously close beneath d cost. When a pile of 1 million checks to ensure that the fire Royster tire pit. tires burned near Fresno a few doesn't spread from the 30-acre "We want to get to that as sou years ago, the cleanup cost about gravel pit to which it's been con- as possible," Lewis said. "It's $800,000, said Eric Lamoureux, a fined, Sheriffs Office spokesman considerable concern that this 1 spokesman for the Integrated Mike Padilla said. lies so close to the aquifer." Waste Management Board. "You can't even guess what this cleanup will cost;' Lamoureux said of the Tracy site. "None of the agencies have ever dealt with a