Johnston Stump Landfill Might Burn All Week

March 1, 2007 North Carolina - Firefighters and neighbors of the Stump Dump near Clayton have settled in for a prolonged struggle with a slow-burning fire that has covered nearly an acre and was the suspected source of thick smoke that blanketed parts of Raleigh on Wednesday night. Officials discovered Monday that the trees and shrubs piled into a hole on the site had caught fire deep beneath the surface. The private landfill, largely fed by debris from cleared construction sites in the fast-growing ...