PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
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- PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
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- PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
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- PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette
Fast action by employees with Lycoming County Resource Management Services (RMS) helped avert the potential for a major incident Thursday when debris in a fully-loaded tractor-trailer caught fire about 1:10 p.m. at the transfer station in the 1400 block of West Third Street, city fire officials said.
When smoke began pouring from the back of a RMS trailer, employees immediately began to off-load the burning cargo, thereby isolating the flames and preventing the fire from spreading to the trailer itself, fire officials said.
When firefighters pulled up at the transfer station, all they had to do was douse the flames coming from the pile.
A lithium battery that was used in a power tool (see third photo) and illegally dumped in someone’s trash sparked the fire, officials said.
The tractor trailer was getting ready to leave for the county landfill, and had the fire started there, that would have caused a much bigger issue, officials said. The landfill property has been the scene of several fires, some of them sparked by lithium batteries that were illegally dumped, officials said/ph
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