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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

Great clarification. I had moved by 2020, so I wasn't there for that one, but as you outlined, that was a unique incident, not caused by the river being so polluted that it could actually BURN!. And most people don't know that that last big burn was only the latest in a long series of river fires.

I remember driving past the area of The Flats where the factories were, and EVERYTHING was black, the buildings, the equipment, the very ground. There was nothing green at all. It looked like another planet.