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Owner of tire dump blames blaze on vandals Page 1 of 3 <br /> Cloudy with a few shower <br /> L 64 H 80 t <br /> More Weather <br /> toledoblade.com <br /> Tuesday August 24, 1999 <br /> j <br /> Home —I <br /> Owner of tire dump blames blaze on vandals <br /> Search <br /> Index <br /> August 24, 1999 <br /> Help <br /> NEWS r BY MIKE TRESSLER <br /> Top Stories BLADE STAFF WRITER <br /> News SYCAMORE, O. - The owner of Ohio's largest tire dump blamed vandals <br /> Sports for the fire that began early Saturday and still burns fiercely. <br /> Opinion <br /> Doris Kirby, owner of Kirby's Tire Recycling, Inc., watched thick, black <br /> Business smoke billow into the sky as sand-hauling trucks rumbled unceasingly <br /> past her doorway yesterday. <br /> Columns <br /> Cartoons <br /> Mrs. Kirby lives next to the 100 acres that has been called America's <br /> Weather largest tire dump. "I have said it was vandals started the fire," Mrs. Kirby <br /> Religionsaid. "I don't know who, but somebody started it." <br /> Archive <br /> An estimated 10 million tires have been e <br /> L J involved in the fire at the site where theSERVICE T: <br /> total number of old tires has been <br /> estimated at between 20 million and 80 <br /> Obituaries million. <br /> EducationNewspapers in <br /> Officials of the Environmental Protection <br /> Events&Prorrwtions; Agency, which has taken over the <br /> Subscribe containment of the fire, say it may be <br /> Advertise Thursday before the fire is out. Flames <br /> Contact Us still leaped 10 to 20 feet from burning <br /> About <br /> tire piles. <br /> Officials said that no real health hazard _ <br /> has been found in the area of the blaze. <br /> 4P One official called the dramatic scene <br /> "more a nuisance than a danger." <br /> S �� No official cause of the fire has been An estimated million tires have been <br /> involved in the fire at Kirby's Tire Recycling. <br /> FIND ANY determined, said Wyandot County (Toledo Blade photo by Jeremy Wadsworth) <br /> Sheriff Mike Hetzel. He said the <br /> BOOK investigation will continue with help from the Sycamore fire department <br /> NOW! and the state fire marshal. <br /> We already have a lot of rumors, but no leads yet," the sheriff said. <br /> http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/news/9h24dump.htm 08/24/1999 <br />