{"id":39823,"date":"2016-04-28T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39823"},"modified":"2016-04-28T19:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:53:54","slug":"tire-pile-grows-as-fines-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/tire-pile-grows-as-fines-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"Tire Pile Grows As Fines Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39824\" title=\"Tires\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tires-300x134.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tires-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tires.png 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A Lehigh Acres recycling business whose property is home to a mountain of old tires (a quarter of million tires) has racked up more than $5,000 in combined fines from Lee County and the state Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n<p>And neighbors say the pile has become a breeding ground for mosquitoes. West Coast Tire Recycling is located just off Leonard Boulevard and Lee Street.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just unreal, said Marcia McClellan. When the tires started coming, at first I didn&#8217;t think it was a big deal. But then the tires kept coming and kept coming. By last summer, the mosquitos in our shop were so bad, because the tires hold water.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The mountain of tires now completely blocks access to an entry gate, leaving some to wonder what would occur in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>What if a fire were to occur, said Aldo Ibarra of All About Cars. If you&#8217;ve ever seen rubber tires go up in flames, it&#8217;s toxic.<\/p>\n<p>West Coast&#8217;s owner said the problems began when the business purchased a faulty tire shredder from China. But while the problem is admittedly embarrassing, she said the collection of old tires must continue to keep the operation afloat.<\/p>\n<p>The state DEP said the company has 90 days to pay its fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Acres recycling business whose property is home to a mountain of old tires (a quarter of million tires) has racked up more than $5,000 in combined fines from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}