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  2. Landfill fire - Wikipedia

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    Subsurface landfill fires also, unlike a typical fire, are difficult to put out with water unless an overhaul operation is undertaken. They are similar to coal seam fires and peat fires . Oxygen intrusion control is the best method to prevent and fight subsurface landfill fires as long as the fire fighting team can be confident that all air ...

  3. Landfill - Wikipedia

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    Once a landfill site is full, it is sealed off to prevent precipitation ingress and new leachate formation. However, liners must have a lifespan, be it several hundred years or more. Eventually, any landfill liner could leak, [7] so the ground around landfills must be tested for leachate to prevent pollutants from contaminating groundwater.

  4. Category:Types of fire - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Types of fire" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. ... Landfill fire; O. Oil well fire ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...

  5. Centralia mine fire - Wikipedia

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    The letter describes "a fire of unknown origin [starting] on or about June 25, 1962, during a period of unusually hot weather". This may refer to the hypothesis of spontaneous combustion being the reason for the start of the landfill fire, a hypothesis accepted for many years by state and federal officials. [7]

  6. Ghazipur landfill - Wikipedia

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    Workers on top of Ghazipur landfill in 2013. The Ghazipur landfill is a landfill waste dumping site established in 1984. It is located in Ghazipur, a village in the eastern district of Delhi, India. [1] The landfill covers an area of approximately 70 acres (28 ha) and reaches heights of over 236 feet (72 m). [2]

  7. Freeway Complex Fire - Wikipedia

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    The Landfill Fire merged with the Freeway Fire at 3:30 a.m. PDT on November 16, 2008. At approximately 7:00 a.m. PDT the two fires were officially renamed the Triangle Complex Fire. Around 12:45 p.m. the Triangle Complex Fire had been renamed once again to the Freeway Complex Fire still using the OCFA incident number CA-ORC-08075221. [ 3 ]

  8. Category:Landfill - Wikipedia

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    A landfill is a site for the permanent disposal of waste materials by burial. The present category lists articles related to landfill. The present category lists articles related to landfill. For individual landfill sites, refer to the webpage Category:Landfills .

  9. Dumpster fire - Wikipedia

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    The term "dumpster fire" is derived from fires that start in trash bins, referred to in the United States as "dumpsters". "Dumpster fire" is an informal term in the United States used to describe a catastrophically bad situation. It has appeared in metaphorical form as early as 2003, and picked up traction in 2010 in the world of sports.