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July 6, 2007

Another fire at the 'stump dump' in Richmond

A fire at an illegal "stump dump" in Richmond was extinguished shortly after 3 p.m. today some 11 hours since firefighters were called to the site, said Frederick A. Stanley, chief of the Hope Valley-Wyoming Fire District.

It was the second response to the site in as many days. Yesterday, firefighters battled another fire at the site from 7 to 11 p.m.

Another fire was reported at the site a week earlier.

Standley said fire officials suspect the fires may have been intentionally set, noting the last fires appeared to burn from the top down.

Kingston and Carolina fire departments assisted today with a Hope Valley ambulance on stanby, Stanley said. Last night, Carolina, Ashaway, and Exeter assisted.

Town and state Department of Environmental Management officials have been negotiating a remediation of the site's cleanup with its owner, Richard Romanoff.

The dump was also the site of a fire in 2003 that burned for several days.

The dump off Skunk Hill Road, which has been operating for years, last year led the state to redefine discarded tree stumps as solid waste.

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