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Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone had asthma.
Raised among heavy industry on the Southeast Side of Chicago, Colón had no reason to believe otherwise: her entire family and neighbors shared the same respiratory issues. The rituals that came with them – like keeping windows shut to ward off billowing clouds of petroleum coke – seemed ordinary.
She remembers how once or twice a year, she would be driven to the clinic by her mother when her bronchitis would act up, to receive treatment her family often couldn’t afford.
Every year, cities across Texas inform citizens on how to dispose of their Christmas trees. For those who decorate real trees, cities do not want you dumping trees in fields or on the side of the road. Instead, many Texas cities have drop-off locations for trees to make everything easy for everyone.
Apparently, one household in McKinney, Texas did not get the memo about where they could stick their tree.
According to the McKinney Fire Department, the fire department responded to a call of a structural fire on Saturday. The residents of the home were apparently attempting to dispose of their Christmas tree by burning it. Not by lighting it on fire in the backyard, which is also a bad idea, but by attempting to stick the Christmas tree into the fireplace of their home.
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The city asked General Iron’s owner to submit almost three dozen additional documents related to potential pollution and safety as part of its application to open a controversial car-shredding operation on the Southeast Side.
In a letter dated Wednesday, the city called Reserve Management Group’s permit application “incomplete and substantially deficient” under new rules for such operations. The requests relate to an array of issues, from dust and air pollution control to stormwater discharge into the Calumet River where the facility will be located at East 116th Street.
The city also is asking for details on controlling fires and explosions. Southeast Side residents have noted an explosion at General Iron’s Lincoln Park site earlier this year as well as numerous air pollution and nuisance complaints from North Side neighbors as reasons they oppose the business. They’ve said it’s not fair that a business that generated years worth of complaints from nei