A garbage fire at the combined Morristown-Hamblen landfill on Sublett Road Wednesday night was confined to about a half-acre, Kevin Jarnigan, chief of the South Hamblen County Fire Department said this morning.
The Morristown Fire Department and West Hamblen volunteers also responded to the 8 p.m. blaze, but heavy assistance wasn’t required, according to Trent, who says it took only 900 gallons of water to extinguish the fire. Landfill employees helped by using heavy machinery to move burning piles of trash, and then covered the smoldering ashes with compressed dirt, according to Trent.
“Last night, it was pretty much cut and dry,” the fire chief said.