Iqaluit dump fire extinguished after 10 hours
Trucked water deliveries, regular landfill hours to resume Thursday, city says
Metal waste is not being accepted at the Iqaluit landfill because the amount already there is creating a safety hazard, states a news release from the City of Iqaluit. (File photo)
It took 10 hours, but Iqaluit firefighters extinguished a blaze at the city’s dump Wednesday.
Emergency services were alerted to the fire at 2:03 a.m. Nine firefighters and seven city staff members responded, and the airport provided a mobile command post for the team to stay warm, city spokesperson Aleksey Cameron said in an email.
At one point, an excavator was “working to expose and allow access to a significant hotspot,” Cameron said of the difficult-to-fight fire.
Firefighters were able to put out the fire by around noon, the city reported in a release.
At one point, residents who rely on trucked water services were asked to conserve water after delivery was cancelled due to resources being used to fight the fire.
The city said water delivery will resume Thursday and the landfill will be open. No injuries were reported. The cause is still under investigation, the city’s release said.
I’m thankful that after 2014 Dumpcano the city made us separate our cardboard from our regular trash and put it in blue bags.
…OH WAIT, damn, I guess the city’s been taking the thousands and thousands of blue bags filled with cardboard and throwing it into the regular garbage truck and dumping it all in the same location.
Hopefully this will be put out quick, but a burning mountain of garbage is the perfect physical manifestation of how our leaders at city hall have done the past couple of years.
It’s going to be hard to blame Nunatsiaq for this fire, but I’m a believer thst it can be done.
I’m back Baby! #Dumpcano
Dumpcano comes for Kenny.
Is this even news? Iqaluit is generally a dumpster fire.
Easy to tell you don’t rely on trucked water services!
Smells like Spring.
On a side note; the flaming trash heap is a pretty good mascot.
I wonder if the city has come to the conclusion that the Fraggle’s did this?
The only surprise with this news is that anyone is surprised.
Asking for a friend