Daily Caller: Private waste disposal companies in California are rethinking their fire emergency practices after a burning pile of trash turned into a vicious wildfire that ravaged a mobile home community, killing two people.
There are no California state laws that regulate how garbage men dispose of burning loads in their trucks, which leaves it to the independent waste disposal companies to decide the procedures employed for those occurrences, The Associated Press reported Thursday. more here
Cue George Costanza…
How could this have happened? I thought that shutting off all of the electricity to the state was supposed to stop wildfires.
“There are no California state laws…” What you mean they missed something to tax, regulate, rule over, impose on us. New law. All garbage trucks will now be followed by a fire truck.
I guess there ARE people that stupid that haven’t killed themselves yet that are able to be “gainfully” employed. But only in California, I think.
Yeah it’s be bad but dont fergit orangeman bad to. Peach foety fie.
Obviously a case of insufficient garbage truck juice.
@Jimmy:
The whole of California couldn’t provide enough GTJ?
Flaming loads of garbage, those guys in California think of everything.
When I was a kid in the 60s & 70s we burned our garbage, but we did that inside a steel barrel. Guess they skipped that part.
I’m not the only one but for years I’ve been saying, “Pick up the TONS of dry tinder for crying out loud!”
These fires aren’t because of “Climate Change.” It’s because of rotten forest management! SHEESH!
That’s right JERRY for sure.The homeless in Cali
can pick it up and it can be made into organic
mulch then sold. Win-Win.
Trucks with burning garbage? Sure they weren’t Democrat campaign buses?
They talk as if it was the lack of a law that was the problem. I doubt a bunch of lawyers turned politicians know the best way to put out a fire in any situation. Let some firefighters do some controlled experiments. Take what they learn and educate the garbage truck drivers. The politicians can just sit this one out.
@Kermit, the pols can sit pretty much every one out.