This is hitting so close to home, literally. It's just down the street from my place.
If anyone has tuned into CP24 today, you will know that there has been a 5 alarm blaze at a meat packing plant on St. Clair Ave, east of Runnymede. It started last night, was put out, then restarted this morning at 7am. I was just walking in the door when the fire trucks and police cars came flying down the street. I heard them for at least another half an hour.
As of half an hour ago, the traffic cameras were still picking up huge amounts of smoke coming from the site of the blaze.
I'm just wondering what the environmental impact of this is going to be. People are being told to keep their window's closed right now in this area. I don't see much over here, but I guess it depends on which way the wind is blowing. I live west of the current blaze.
It's a very scary situation for anyone living in this area and the impact is probably going to be fairly bad too.
Any thoughts on this, now that it's been over for a few days?
People in the area are glad that the place has been destroyed as it means that they can all live easier. Some people stated that the smell coming from that place was horrible.
After writing the above information, I went out the door to go to work, and was bombarded by smoke(which looked like fog to the unkowing person), and the smell of fire(which again, would seem like a fireplace smell to the unkowing person). I almost turned around and went back inside it was so bad. But I had to go to work. I had no choice.
I glanced out the window on the bus while going to work, and all I saw on St. Clair was a massive amount of flashing lights. That when I realized it was so close to my house. I'm glad I had the windows and doors shut like was recommended that night. It was horrible.
So with a fire raging on all day like that, you really have to wonder what it's done to the environment. It blazed on for more than 12 hours I think.
Fire's are horrible... no one was hurt I hope? With all the forest fires in the summer months it must be really bad for pollution and the air quality all around. Lot's of fire's can't really be prevented,though I think it'd be better if people that smoked could stop throwing in there cigarettes everywhere. (Sorry I seem to have a personal vendetta towards anyone that smokes because the smell completely makes my allergies’ go haywire.) Anyway I'm guessing this was a house fire? Uh, that sucks though. I hope the smell and smoke goes away soon for you. =)
Nope, if you read my first post, it was at a meat packing plant. I don't have any links to any articles since my internet crashed after the fire and I couldn't link the article the next day.
Basically, to sum it up, early Monday morning, a fire broke out at this packing place and was put out around 3:45am. At around 6:45am, the fire department was called back for another fire that started in the building, and it escalated to a 5 alarm blaze by the afternoon. This was a suspicious fire, since each fire occured in either end of the plant.
When I left for work Monday night, I could smell the fire and see the smoke, and I live about a 15 minute walk from the plant.
This plant is situated immediately across from a new townhouse development and the residents in that area have been fighting for years to have the plant closed down. A few years ago an agreement was made to close it down and demolish it, however, for some reason, the deal fell through and the plant stayed open.
Rumor has it that recently an animal carcass was found in an alley beside the plant. I don't know if that's true, but anything's possible I guess.
So to make a long story short, they finally got the fire under control by Tuesday morning, but have to close the plant down permanently. Approximately 70 people are out of jobs.
The residents in the area are quite pleased that this has happened and cannot wait until the place is demolished. They were supposed to put in parkland when the original deal had been made.
It seems bad, but the impact of the fire probably wasn't all that bad. I imagine there aws just some ground level pollution that might have made things hard for people with asthma, etc., but it would clear up in a few days. I'd be concerned, though, if there were chemicals used in the plant that produced or released any toxic organic compounds as a result of the fire.
But it's probably not a huge deal, in comparison to the daily emission produced by vehicles in your area.
Anyone else hear this yet?
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