Tuesday, August 12, 2014

History - The 1986 Perona Bros Junkyard Fire


MULLICA TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Like a nightmarishly surrealistic painting come alive, huge black piles of old tires obscure the horizon. Some of the tires are piled against blackened trees; some hang from the branches. Others have been so cooked by the flames that they appear to drip downward, pulled grotesquely out of shape by the heat.
At high noon yesterday, the Perona Bros. junkyard along Route 30 in Atlantic County looked like a Salvador Dali painting at dusk, much as it had for the last four days.
Continued at
http://articles.philly.com/1986-12-11/news/26067822_1_deer-hunting-fire-scene-volunteer-firefighters

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This lawless family had the protection of mullica's elected officials for many years, culminating with several tire fires, polluted land, unpaid taxes and the threat of a regional rail trash transfer station in the heart of our vulnerable, rural community.