ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will get a visit Wednesday from some Bridgeton Landfill neighbors asking him to declare a state of emergency.
Dawn Chapman of the Just Moms STL landfill group says they’ll present a petition to the governor with 5,000 signatures asking for a state of emergency and federal help to put out the landfill fire before it’s too late.
“I don’t think that (Nixon) needs to wait for an emergency,” Chapman says. “I think he can call a preemptive one and get the federal resources in right now to prevent it from happening. I think that this is what I’d like to see happen here.”
Last week, St. Louis county released its disaster plan calling for evacuations if the landfill fire reaches the nuclear waste.
“You’ve got teachers over here at the high school and Rose Acres (Elementary School) saying ‘We are scared’,” Champman says. “We are responsible to take care of all these kid and we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to do that. You’ve got people reporting illnesses saying I’m sick this has destroyed my family.”
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