Multiple Fire Departments In Pickens County Respond To Landfill Fire Over The Weekend

(Seneca, SC)—————–Pickens County Emergency Services issued a release over the weekend that announced that around 25 firefighters with five different fire departments were working with landfill staff to extinguish a fire that was reported at the Pickens County Landfill in Liberty. 

According to the press release, E-911 dispatchers received a report of the fire around 4am Saturday morning at the landfill located in the 2000 block of Old Liberty Road. 

When fire units arrived, they discovered a fire burning on the back side of the landfill. 

Fire crews were expected to be on the scene for several hours in their attempts to extinguish the fire. Emergency management officials said at the time of their release that the smoke from the fire did not pose any hazard to any nearby residents.