MOUNT MORRIS, N.Y. — A mulch fire at Schreier Farm on Begole Road in Mount Morris has been burning for two weeks as efforts continue to keep it contained.
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News10NBC’s Declan Stablow spoke with Kirk Schreier, part owner of the farm and a volunteer firefighter with the Nunda Fire Department, about the ongoing work to control the fire and protect the community. Schreier said safety has been his top priority since the fire started, and he has been following the Department of Environmental Conservation’s recommendation (DEC) to let the fire burn out.
“They said they recommend just letting it burn because, that way, there’s no, threat to health and life. Our biggest concern from day one was air monitoring. How can we prove that the air is safe?” Schreier said.
Schreier bought a tool to measure air quality and keep his neighbors informed, and he has taken steps to prevent the fire from spreading. He described the fire protection measures in place around the mulch pile.
“So right here we have three lines of fire protection. We have the initial right around that. We have one out farther and one out even farther of that so the fire won’t spread,” Schreier said.
He said someone is always monitoring the fire, especially when it is windy. The mulch pile came from a solar project in York, and the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) visited the farm to confirm it was an approved dump site.
“So when they brought it to us, it was super dry. And we thought we shouldn’t have concerns. Everyone we talked to said we were probably good. Obviously we weren’t,” Schreier said.
Schreier said he would have handled the mulch differently if given another chance.
“Probably the best thing would have been is to do a bunch of different piles instead of having one big pile is have — we try to keep the two separated, but we should have done multiple different piles,” Schreier said.
Schreier said he is finished with the mulch business. Town Supervisor David DiSalvo believes the fire started spontaneously, but he said he receives daily complaints about smoke and worries the fire could spread.
“Right now it’s for the county and everybody, ORES they said just let it run. But the forest rangers you know they, they don’t know when it’s going to stop burning. So we’re, we’re at everybody’s mercy basically,” DiSalvo said.
Declan reported that he reached out to the state DEC and the ORES for comment. The DEC said it is working on a response, while ORES has not responded.
Schreier said the DEC initially told him it could take a couple of months for the fire to burn out, but he hopes it will be extinguished sooner. Both the town and Schreier said there was a meeting last Friday about the fire that included the DEC.
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