Raleigh Firefighters Tame Mulch Pile Inferno

0:00It's May 2nd. This is Durham News today, local news powered by AI. Firefighters in Raleigh battle remotech pile blaze at Liberty Waste Solutions on Gresham Lake Road near Capitol Boulevard. The fire started Friday and burned for several hours, turning a massive heap into an inferno. Sky 5 captured aerial footage around 3.35pm, showing the flames raging through the dry material. Crowe supplied water, while the North Carolina Forestry Service incite owners brought in heavy equipment to shift the piles and starve the fire. No one got hurt, and locals barely noticed since no buildings took damage and road stayed open. Dry conditions and heat, building up inside the mulch piles, set the stage for trouble like this. Crowe suspects spontaneous combustion kicked it off, though they're still piecing together the exact spark. They shuffled the material non-stop to keep oxygen low and flames contained. Right now, the fire's fully under control, proving these teams know how to handle nature's

1:01curve balls without letting it spread.