Word: dumpsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fire Department's arson squad does not plan to investigate any of the dumpster fires, officials said. "No matter how small [a fire] is, it's important but whether it's worth a full fledged investigation is another matter," said Dudley...
...previous Saturday, September 22, the Fire Department extinguished five dumpster fires between 10 and 11 pm; 10:13 at 89 Winthrop Street, 10:23 at 30 Brattle Street, 10:30 at 17 Dunster Street, 10:46 at 6 Holyoke Street, and 11:04 at 51 Brattle Street...
...latest and biggest of a two-week rash of trash fires in Harvard Square broke out in a 17 Dunster St. dumpster last Saturday night, September 29, singeing nearby trees but causing no major damage, the fire department said...
...started our rounds by walking down a long, narrow alley that led to the dumpster behind a cookie shop, Joseph hoisted himself so he could see over the receptacle's rim. "Looks like they didn't throw anything out today," he said. "You've got more guts than I have," he added admiringly as I clambered into the dumpster to make sure...
Five minutes after noon the scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16-in. pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector...