Massive Landfill Fire Sparks During Indian Heat Wave, Impacting Air Quality



New Delhi is entering day four of a massive landfill fire that is shrouding the northern part of the city in smoke, classifying the air quality as “very poor.” No deaths or injuries have been reported from the fire itself as firefighters are working to contain the flames during a brutal heat wave across India.

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41 comments

  1. Let's not. Forget all the garbage they dump in the ocean.

  2. Um New Mexico is on Fire as we speak

  3. Do they have any option other than to ultimately let it burn itself out? That’d be VERY unfortunate and deadly for a lot of people I’d imagine.

  4. Too many people= too many problems.

  5. Were killing ourselves with trash

  6. They said this what happens when you don't recycle your trash for over a 100 years.
    Their own trash will be the death of them

  7. disgusting – I will never set foot on this land.

  8. God is fighting back Those Indians are killing Muslims
    Read the Quran people Submit to your creator this What slam means and you will know why this is happening
    Turn to God

  9. I love the Indian accent

  10. Where living in dire times like climate change

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  12. AHHH INDIA! VEDDY VEDDY LOVELY place to live. LOL

  13. Everywhere in India is a landfill

  14. Landfill fires go for decades. You can't put them out, only cover them.

  15. A fire in a Toilet bowl New Delhi

  16. India does not care about the health of it's people. The large cities in India are big, giant garbage dumps. The government never has and never will do anything about this . Over the many, many decades this has been a problem and will be forever. They can't even report the air quality correctly.

  17. Then there are Africans who burn our unwanted clothing items, then there are those that insist on cutting down whole forests to make charcoal. Then I drive less than 400 miles a year. Why should I try to keep the air cleaner?

  18. Needed to burn to ashes to make room

  19. That's what happen when you don't help Ukraine

  20. All roads lead to dystopia.. and America is stuck on identity politics.

  21. These people are just ugh 😑

  22. years ago I worked at a boston area landfill as an outside contractor for about a week . The onsite landfill manager told me it was a constant battle to keep up with underground landfill fires. He said they started as a result of spontaneous combustion from chemicals which probably shouldn't be in the landfill mix together. He had a big excavator he would move to the smoke rising, dig a hole and pour water down the hole and hopefully fire would go out.

  23. Amazing and they support PUTIN !

  24. Hopefully it will burn down some of those state sanctioned "internet scam centers" and spare the rest of those people…

  25. When India has disasters, they are always massive ones.
    *****************************************************************

  26. India need to stop so many babies!!!

  27. Almost like living in squalor has bad side effects. 🕵‍♂

  28. And they have nuclear weapons 🙄

  29. Don't shirt where you eat

  30. Soon enough the whole world is gonna look like this

  31. You can compost, but hey that is a load of a stretch though.

  32. Wow, this is how some unfortunate individuals live, while others have everything. Talk about inequalities in this world that we live in.

  33. So much for a green new 🌎 we are screwed between this the war and the tire fire in Saudi………….

  34. can it be covered? to keep the oxygen out? or is this toxic waste? yikes

  35. dig a fricken hole or something. i thought this was a "civilized" part of the world?