<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4GBrzm_1Gzl25hn00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4GBrzm_1Gzl25hn00" width="400" height="225" >Mount Morris, N.Y. (WHAM) — For two weeks now, a large pile of mulch has been smoldering at Schrier Farm in Mount Morris, with smoke continuing to rise.The fire started the night of Oct. 28."At that time, the assistant chief from Mount Morris showed up, and we made a plan of just let it burn (because) no one's getting hurt," said landowner and farmer Kirk Schrier."It got hot in there, and it found oxygen, and it was off to the races and took off," Schrier added.Mulch was brought to the property through a business arrangement with a solar company, Schrier said."They had a lot of mulch that they had to get rid of, about 200 acres they had to chip up, and they asked if we'd be interested, and we said, 'Well, yes,' we had a couple ideas for what we could use with it," Schrier said. "Early spring, they went in and cut all the wood down first, then the wood sat there for about two to three months. There was no leaves or any kind of organic material on there. Then they ended up chipping it up, then bringing it to us."As the fire continues to burn, state Sen. Pam Helming has spoken out."This is what happens when you have (the Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission) permitting these large-scale industrial projects, and you have no local input," Helming said. "This is over 400 semi-tractor-trailer loads of material that was removed from a site that's going to be large-scale industrial and dumped here."But Schrier said ORES, the state agency that provides oversight for solar companies, has been involved and approved the plan."Farming right now in today's society is really tough. A lot of farmers are going out, so we're constantly picking our heads up and looking for different opportunities," he said. "To one person was the saying, 'One man's trash is another man's treasure.'"Schrier said his top concern was air quality. "We ended up purchasing our own monitoring equipment," he said. "We went around the community. We do twice-a-day checks of the air quality, making sure the air is safe for everyone here."The Livingston County Office of Emergency Management continues to check in. "Emergency management stops in twice a day, checks on the pile, asks what they can do," Schrier said. "The company that we got this mulch from, they call me daily."</div></body>

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Mount Morris, N.Y. (WHAM) — For two weeks now, a large pile of mulch has been smoldering at Schrier Farm in Mount Morris, with smoke continuing to rise. The fire started the night of Oct. 28. "At that time, the assistant chief from Mount Morris showed up, and we...

Mulch fire continues to burn in Mount Morris 2 weeks later

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Mount Morris, N.Y. (WHAM) — For two weeks now, a large pile of mulch has been smoldering at Schrier Farm in Mount Morris, with smoke continuing to rise. Th

Mulch fire continues to burn in Mount Morris 2 weeks later

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