Historic blaze fueled a boom in tire recycling, advances in fire monitoring
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
An historic tire fire 30 years ago that blazed on for nine months in the northwest Virginia Appalachians, releasing giant plumes of toxic smoke, sparked a recycling revolution and advances in fire-monitoring methods. The fire's environmental legacy is the topic of the cover story in Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.