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Once again the world’s largest dumpster, the old solid waste transfer facility, 3200 Benning Rd. NE caught fire. The structure had a second-floor drive through ramp where garbage trucks would dump their contents into one of two massive six-stories deep, 150’ long concrete holding bins. Spontaneous ignition was a constant occurrence and the fires were controlled by an overhead crane used to dig and shift the mountain of trash. Sometimes the smoke became overpowering, the flames too large, and the FD was called.



On this occasion E-27’s 1990 Ford/ E\-One was driven into the building for a legitimate use of the wagon pipe. October, 1991