Firefighters Stop Spread of Big Blaze

Firefighters Hanrl|r0trr ralh stop spread Saving the Manchester area for WO years Manchester. Conn. Wednesday, June 24. 1981 25 Cents of big blaze : -i-* -, YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (U P l) - neighbors anu eight dogs stood on Firefighters today had almost the roof of a home in the Atlas Peak halted the spread of a giant brush area while flames roared toward fire raging through the heart of them California wine country that ■’We watched the flames closing ? v ..r ' destroyed $500,000 mansions, in. We panicked as the house next cremated terrified animals and in door went up in flames, just like jured 10 people. that,' said Daly, snapping his The blaze, apparently touched off fingers. I' by a series of crude firebombs, He said a ranger with a mask caused $30 million in property arrived and the neighbors drove damage, including 26,000 charred through a wall of flame. acres in Napa County. "I couldn’t see anything except Investigators from the California leaping flames and I prayed all the Department of F'orestry reported way through the fire. " said Daly. finding incendiary devices at two of (Officials of the state Department the four sites where the fire began of Forestry termed the fire Monday afternoon ■■definitely arson. " Arson investigator Pat Bawden said they were "time delay arson devices in which a slow-burning fuse is used to ignite a larger incendiary after the arsonist is long gone. Marriage's ■ < I jr Bawden declined to specify ho.w . -T-r ■*t -fe'# ,• the devices worked, but said that a cigarette could be used as a -fuse In one high-priced neighborhood, tax penalty nine frantic neighbors and their dogs stranded on a roof panicked as the house next door went up in on way out flames. 'To escape, they were driven A compactor rolls up and down a mound of garbage at the town through a wall of flames by a forest ranger. • Compacting Manchester iandfiii sanitary landfill. Trash has to be compressed as much as possible jf ^ I N G T O N (U PlI - Married Ranchers cut their fences so cat so it will form sturdy ground. (Herald photo by Rosenberg) co^Fles with two incomes may be on tle and horses could flee. A fire of their way to paying lower taxes ficial said seared carcases of wild 'i’h^'- Senate Finance Committee deer littered the road. But the Tuesday . approved an area’s vineyards were spared administration-backed measure A southwest wind aided a that would reduce the so-called firefighting army of 1,600 men, in "marriage penalty ” by 10 percent Refuse used to reclaim land cluding 400 convicts, by blowing over two years. flames back toward the burned The panel’s chairman. Sen Bob areas. Firefighters spent the night bage collector,' landfill attendant the correct place, O’Omnor noted. said. Whenever the landfill is ready Dole. R-Kan . said his committee By Hilary Rosenberg starting backfires in hot spots to Carmen Avery said. Much of the small trash people hoped to complete work on its tax Herald Reporter to go up another lift, O'Connor said keep the flames from spreading. O'Connor expects a surge in land bring to the landfill can be disposed bill today he jokes with his crewmen. "Well, Fire boss Ray Malm said some M A N C H E S T E R - A s ign of in a chute at the entrance. Metal The House Ways and Means Com fill activity after townwide garbage we’re going up another lift You areas of the fire could be controlled alongside the dirt road heading into trash of all sizes goes in a large bin, mittee. also writing a tax bill, today collection drops from twice to once- better put your beacon on your by late today and some men and the town landfill directs visitors: which is hauled off to a company planned to consider tax incentives to a-week service a week from machine so the airplanes don't hit equipment released from the lines. "Logs, wood, brush, tires. Straight that shreds metal. promote savings, such as one its Wednesday, he said. In May, the you." William Ward, regional manager ahead." Glass and newspapers can be Senate counterpart already has ap Board of Directors reduced the ser The landfill can go up at least one of the local office of Emergency The road climbs up a hill to a flat vice as a budget-cutting measure for deposited into bins for recycling. proved more lift, he said Then the landfill Damages, said Napa County would area where people can dump their Also, a tank is available for dumping The Senate F'inance Committee fiscal 1981-82. will expand to an area that is now be declared a disaster area "until garbage in certain sections. Beyond old automobile oil. This oil is action is intended to rectify tax code According to O'Connor, the rise in being prepared as a base for a land ■we get exact figures on the losses the plateau, seagulls from the pumped out and used in oil burners . provisions under which two-income business at the landfill will probably fill. and how much was covered by the Hockiuium River circle over a huge in the schools. married couples now'generally pay subside after, a few months when O'Connor predicted the expansion insurance. We’re not sure exactly compactor as it rolls up and down a In the landfill plan, O'CCimur said, more tax than unmarried couples area would take 20 years to fill, what we’ll do.” garbage is spread into three-walled with similar incomes. trash-covered mound, flattening making the total landfill more than Fire information officer Jim "cells” of earth and compacted. The Finance Committee s plan basketballs and crates beyond 50 years old. With the expansion, the Mower made the $30 million es Rain and melting snow aid the com would allow the lesser-earning recognition. landfill will cover an area of about timate Tuesday, which included pacting process, while vegetation spouse to deduct from their joint "Some people just say this is a ' 63 acres. homes and other structures, Landfill area around the landfill and growing in taxable income 5 percent of his or dump," said sanitation foreman Lee The town is currently awaiting a livestock, power facilities and other it prevents soil erosion, he said. her salary, up to $1,500, in 1982 and O'Ctmnor. "This is not a dump, it’s a decision from the Army Corps of losses. ^ m e garbage, such as tires, is 10 percent, up to $3,000, in 1983 landfill. We're creating a land not just a dump Engineers on whether it can use 4.9 The fire destroyed more than almost impossible to compact and The House Ways and Means Com form.” acres of land in the landfill area, three dozen homes, most of them in bury, according to O’Connor. With mittee also intends to approve Garbage must be placed .in which has been designated the posh Atlas.Peak area, where marriage penalty tax relief. Rep designated areas and compacted ac the settling of the ground, he said, wetlands, as part of the landfill. prices of houses start at $250,000 “ Tires have a tendency tof'work Ken Holland. D-S.C , said Tuesday cording to a long range plan that will apiece. Many of the gutted homes their way up to the surface.” Land O’Connor enjoys seeing the land his tax task force soon will recom turn the completed landfill into a residents become accustomed to the were in the $500,000 range. fill personnel are now experimen fill take shape, he said. “ Everything mend a marriage penalty relief park with five playing fields and new collection schedule. Attorney Jeff Daly, eight of his other recreation facilities. During the influx of new activity, ting with a new method of burying is in order. We always know which provision that would allow deduc "The people of Manchester ac the landfill personnel will have to tires in which they are tucked un way we’re going." tion of up to $5,000 of the lesser ear tually have a gold mine here." keep a close eye on the landfill to derneath a slope. "W e’re hoping - I’ ’■■Although It is far off in the dis ning spouse’s salary O’Connor said scanning the uneven make sure trash is going in the right they’ll stay down,” O’Connor said. tance, O’Connor can see the day Along with the revision in the expanse of the landfill. “ Not many places, O'Connor said.- When one level, or “ lift,” of the when the landfill is completed and Samples today marriage penalty, the Republican- towns have landfills. Often people dump their garbage landfill is completed, another is covered with two feet of compacted dominated Senate Finance Com The traffic at the landfill averages in the improper areas, he said. started by building cells on top of old soil, grass and trees, he said. Now. The Manchester Herald today mittee approved the bulk of the ad about 200 vehicles a day coming in to “ People don't understand.^ he said. cells, O'Connor explained. A lift can in its formative stages, the landfill continues its sampling program ministration's tax cut plan leaving dump trash, O'Connor said. Many of "They say "This is a dump. What be between 10 and 20 feet h(gh. is a region of rolling, sandy hills. to bring copies of the newspaper only business lax cuts, employee those driving in are contractors with difference does it make?"’ When In the past year-and-a-half.

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