Show Will HB By THE BLACK CLOUD of smoke caused by a fire started at the landfill Monday by unknown per- curls toward the The cloud caused many calls to the city office by area residents demanding an explanation about its origin and a ominous black cloud that moved into the area Monday touched off numerous phone calls and com- plaints by area residents to the Vernal city office and the office of the Vernal Shortly before calls began pour- ing in at both offices from some people concerned about what the amount of smoke represented and from others who were angered by where the smoke was coming They all discovered the smoke was coming from the City-County landfill northeast of Although it wasn't the first time the smoke has risen record numbers of resident took the time to voice their complaints to city of- reason that smoke was a Th Many began circulating the W ful ho nl to Uke time to bury Manager Shane when asked about the smoke commented it wasn't city workers who had started the fire but possibly the work of He explained it is the position of the city to extinguish any fires that are started out there as soon as In with the ground the fire extinguishing was not to occur until Tuesday when a caterpillar equip- ped with a ripper large enough to break the frozen ground and cover the fire could be borrowed from the The existing piece of machinery on the land- fill site was not capable of the as a matter ol to extinguish a fire at the landfill just last fires out thera are more numerous and frequent than are city employee stated fires are there quite Other acts of vandalism also occur ranging imaging of equipment to demolishing the caretaker's U was also learned a more stringent attempt to dissuade would-be vandals and firebugs will be undertaken in the future while city officials try to learn how the fires are |