Email

Print

The Belize City dump at mile three on the Western Highway was burning this morning, and while it does happen at this time of year, the concern is that going into the long weekend, it could cause a stink across the city. This morning we spoke to councillor with responsibility for sanitation Phillip Willoughby about it.

Phillip Willoughby, Councillor in Charge of Sanitation
“I believe that needs be, we need to send in a excavator, sometime between now and midday we will do so, so that we can extinguish the fire problem. We are grateful for the cold front and the little rain that came down I would say about one o’clock this morning, a nice little shower came down, and the cool atmosphere at this time is helping the situation. But nonetheless, we need to get to the bottom of the fire and an excavator would be the ideal equipment for us to solve that particular problem.”

Jules Vasquez,
Okay now we’re coming up on the long weekend, the holiday weekend, we know a lot of people will be at home and how much a risk is there that the offending putrid smoke will be wafting into Belize City?

Phillip Willoughby,
“I believe that no later than midday today we will have this problem resolved. So I don’t think any wafting smell or fumes or any contaminants will affect anyone in the Faber’s Road area or in the Jane Usher area or in the Western Highway. I believe we will have this situation under control before going into the holiday weekend. This is the plan and the strategy from the Fire Department.”

That excavator did not come through as none was available. That is needed to unearth the fire from the base. Up to this afternoon at 4:30 it was still burning and Willoughby says they will try to get the exactor tomorrow.