Officials refuse to allow demo of
superior tire fire flame snuffer

 Monday, October 11, 1999 Meeting notes

 A big part of the meeting was taken up by Richard Haney of Pacific Resources who represents Enviro-Foam.

 On about September 29th, he showed up at the tire fire site with approval to demo Enviro-Foam.  While it’s too long a story to detail here, after he got there, he was told that by county officials that he wouldn’t be allowed to do a demo.  When asked who was denying the previous agreed on plans, he was passed to various officials who all said it was someone else.

 This Enviro-Foam claims to have the ability to put out the whole fire for a chemical cost of $100,000.  That’s’ in comparison to 10’s of thousands a day that’s it’s costing Williams to attempt to put the fire out.  According to the Modesto Bee story of Monday the 11th, Williams doesn’t know whether they can put the fire out or when.

 The fact that our county and federal officials refused to look at a demo at no cost to them, which would put this fire out, is a serious breach of the public trust and should require an investigation all on it’s own.

 Karen Cox, chairwomen, will be playing a demo tape of Enviro-Foam for the Board of Supervisors tomorrow morning shortly after their meeting starts at 9 AM. 

We urge you to write letters and send e-mail to our federal representatives Congressman Gary Condit, Senator Dianne Feinstine and Senator Barbara Boxer protesting the EPA’s handling of this effort to demo Enviro-Foam.

 While we can only go by the demo we saw and the claims of the company, what we heard was pretty serious stuff.  This company has a Web site at:

www.pacificresources.com/industrial.

We’ve all known there must be some other choices in putting out this fire.  We’ve all felt that the “let-it-burn” attitude was an official out and now we are seeing that there are other fire supressents as we always suspected.

 It may take a lot of pressure to get our county and federal officials to see the light, but if we stick too it, we can accomplish the end of this fire and then start looking at how it happened and who’s to blame.