The fire is burning mostly underground at the Environmental Landfill, Inc., facility in St. Clair County. For more than six weeks, the blaze has blanketed many of the suburbs north of Birmingham with smoke, generating complaints from local residents.
, says the site of the blaze is likely to become a crime scene once the fire is out.
“I feel if nothing else, it’s going to be a low end arson investigation,” Batemon said. “I think that’s going to happen. Who set the fires? Then I think beyond that, you’re going to see if there are things in there that are carcinogens or whatever.” “We want the fire out, and then we can go in and start this investigation,” Batemon said. “At that point in time, we lose control because it becomes a crime scene and you don’t go onto a crime scene unless you’re one of the investigators.”to reach the landfill owners for comment have not been successful. When approached by AL.com last week, a representative at the landfill said they had been advised not to comment.
He also said the department was hampered by the fact that “green waste” landfills, like the one that is on fire, are not subject to the same oversight as the kind of landfills that accept household trash or construction and demolition waste.
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