Video of the Green Island fire

posted Mar 4, 2011

Thursday's fire at the R.K. Freedman scrap yard in Green Island sent a huge cloud of smoke billowing high into the sky -- it reportedly could be seen for miles.

A few people have uploaded video of the fire to YouTube. The clip above really gives you a sense of how much smoke the fire generated. Yep, the video is oriented the wrong way. (You may want to turn down the sound -- the soundtrack might not exactly be office appropriate.)

A few more clips from the fire are embedded after the jump.

This clip's from Lwood, who remembered the building on his blog.

And here's a photo of the fire from Troy, by Flickr user allaboutevelyn.

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Here's some pics of the fire and the aftermath.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=273360&id=697996618&l=1db60122c1

... said Lwoodbluz on Mar 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM | link

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