Municipal garbage transfer station proposed in Ford Heights where tire fire broke out

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Municipal garbage transfer station proposed in Ford Heights where tire fire broke out
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A way station for municipal trash is proposed in Ford Heights at the site of a May 2016 tire fire.

Ford Heights and Chicago Heights fire departments working at the scene May 24, 2016 of a tire fire in Ford Heights.

An application received by the state agency seeks to operate the transfer site at 1703 Cottage Grove Ave., according to the IEPA.Transfer stations can be used to accept multiple loads of municipal garbage, which is then consolidated in large trucks and hauled to landfills. The property is just south of U.S. 30 and east of the Ford Motor Co. stamping plant in Chicago Heights., when a spark from an adjacent business set a pile of mulched tires on fire, generating smoke that could be seen in downtown Chicago and northwest Indiana.

Firefighters from Chicago Heights, Matteson, Flossmoor, Glenwood, Steger and the Crete Township Fire Protection District were among those who battled the blaze,

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