Saturday, March 8, 2025
A FIRE at a scrap metal yard near the landfill site erupted on Saturday, sending clouds of smoke billowing across New Providence.
The blaze erupted on Saturday morning but hours later firefighters were still trying to contain the fire at Larry's Scrap Metal Yard, aross from the New Providence Ecology Park.
The park said its teams were helping to contain and extinguish the fire.
Tribune staff at the site of the fire noted the location included metal, car parts, industrial waste, batteries and more.
Firefighters at the scene were fighting to make sure the blaze did not spread to the landfill.
Comments
Porcupine says...
Another reminder of why it is important for our PM and his climate change / sea level rise entourage to again travel the world demanding money from other people.
And, like the Rubis oil spill, only The People will suffer.
Posted 9 March 2025, 8:59 a.m. Suggest removal
Porcupine says...
So Tribune,
I "Tried Again Later" to read the story, "Everybody is Scared as Hell, on mounting Trump tariff confusion."
Where is the article?
Who killed it, and why?
Posted 9 March 2025, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
Where are the immediate Emergency Warnings and controls for the surrounding areas and island after looking at the known extremely toxic clouds of smoke?
At least keep indoors warnings, back to the mandated Covid mask controls. Available help for asthma and persons with breathing challenges.
Posted 9 March 2025, 9:47 a.m. Suggest removal
bahamianson says...
That smoldering cloud has the potential to cause lung cancer . That scrap yard needs to be shut down , or have insurance . People get sued for cancer causing occurrences.
Posted 9 March 2025, 3:53 p.m. Suggest removal
bogart says...
The smoldering cloud would consist of particles combination by heat at various temperatures to combine with plastics from the car wires, seats, inner roof and door coverings, dashboards, batteries plastic, acids, benzene, industrial wastes which could be any chemicals, car oils wastes, car parts made of various materials and the list of horrible unwanted materials in the big bubble, bubble toil and trouble mixture taken to air.
Quite possible that the mixtures would drop off all over the island and some in various forms and be present in the air for some time according to air currents etc. and on winds on roofs, cars, door handles, clothes on the clothes line etc. be again blown off days later. Some time later the horrible mixtures and chemical combinations with long chemical names would be frightening and concern to water table where lots of backyard wells exist. The authorities should by now dealing with this disaster. Are they?
Posted 9 March 2025, 4:46 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
**Official cloud of silence** after scrap metal yard sends cloud of nasty thick black smoke over Nassau. --- Has become the normal reaction just like how the RT. Honorable Premiership and Honourable Ministers' of Environment, Security, Finance and Tourism have been missing since Elon's SpaceX Starship rocket exploded mid-flight Thursday evening, lighting up the sky as its space debris rained down over the tourism dependent Bahamas. -- Only in the Bahamas would a government issue a Business License for a Scrap Metal Yard, across from an Ecology Park. --- Not makin' this up. Tis a fact. -- Yes?
Posted 9 March 2025, 2:06 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
Well... as the owner of the strap metal yard that caught fire two(?) weeks ago said ~"*their house een burn, it's only my property that got damaged. What they complaining about? Smoke?*"
The statement tells you how in trouble we are. Is more of them than us
Posted 9 March 2025, 6:16 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
@ComradeThsIsOurs, what of the two illegal charcoal-burning businesses' operating in bushes **off All Saints Way** in southwestern New Providence which** just happened to be in full operation in the constituency** of the Minister of Environment. -- Yes?
Posted 9 March 2025, 6:39 p.m. Suggest removal
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