Garbage truck dumps burning trash in street - GIF

[Altair]

Garbage truck dumps burning trash in street.




Previously:

Garbage truck hydraulic line fire - GIF
Garbage truck dumps unsecured dumpster on street - GIF
Dutch garbage collection system - GIF
Garbage dump core sample - photo
Collector accurately hurling garbage into truck - GIF

[greenie]

Quick thinking driver, reckon he should get a pay rise after that lot.

Better to have the burning garbage dumped on the street, that have the truck burn to the ground.

[mccwho]

Quick thinking driver, reckon he should get a pay rise after that lot.

Better to have the burning garbage dumped on the street, that have the truck burn to the ground.

Exactly!
They probably have that as a standard procedure. And they guy in the video says he's losing his job, LOL

[tlnixon]

I saw this happen here in Davenport, IA. a number of years ago. On a Sunday afternoon, I saw a garbage truck unloading and spreading his load on the street. It wasn't quite as big a fire as this one. The Fire department put it out and then it really began to stink. The city brought out an end loader and loaded it back up in the truck. Might have been someone's charcoal from a grill that wasn't completely burned, or perhaps a chemical reaction.

[joeljensen]

Oddly enough, this is more common than I thought. Even the waste disposal companies instruct customers not to include household hazmat in their garbage.

1/4 of all garbage truck fires are from garbage burning.

[The Hobby Machinist NZ]

Instead of laughing and saying he is losing his job, they should have been calling the fire department to put the file out.