New Delhi engulfed in smoke after landfill fire

Описание: (27 Apr 2022)
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New Delhi - 27 April 2022
1. Pan from traffic on highway to waste burning on landfill
2. Pull focus of burning waste
3. Pan of burning landfill
4. Wide of burning landfill, fire trucks
5. Informal waste worker picking through waste
6. Tilt down from smoke to Bhairo Raj, 31, segregating waste
7. Dogs sitting on mounds of waste
8. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Bhairo Raj, 31, informal waste worker:
"There's a fire every year. It is not new. There is risk to life and livelihood. Many slum dwellings caught fire, people left, but what do we do?"
9. Firemen spraying water
10. Locals watching from distance
11. Firemen spraying water
12. Pan of the burning waste
13. Passers-by looking on
14. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sonu (uses one name only), 20, employed at a local business:
"We are very scared. We inhale these gases, causing diseases. I feel pain while breathing, there are many like this. What to do?"
15. Vehicles drive away engulfed in smoke
16. Vehicle carrying school children drives away
17. Various of nearby roads and localities engulfed in smoke rising from the burning landfill
STORYLINE:
Acrid smoke hung over New Delhi for a second day on Wednesday after a massive landfill caught fire during a scorching heat wave, forcing informal waste workers to endure hazardous conditions.
The landfill in northern Delhi’s Bhalswa is taller than a 17-story building and covers an area bigger than 50 football fields.
Waste workers who live in nearby homes had emptied onto the streets on Tuesday evening.
But by Wednesday morning, the thousands of people who live and work at the landfill had begun the dangerous process of trying to salvage garbage from the fire.
“There’s a fire every year. It is not new. There is risk to life and livelihood, but what do we do?” asked Bhairo Raj, 31, an informal waste worker who lives next to the landfill. He said that his children studied there and he couldn't afford to leave.
The Indian capital, like the rest of South Asia, is in the midst of a record-shattering heat wave that experts said was a catalyst for the landfill fire. Three other landfills around the Indian capital have also caught fire in recent weeks.
The landfill in the latest fire was planned for closure more than a decade ago, but more than 2,300 tons of the city's garbage is still dumped there every day. The organic waste in the landfill decays, resulting in a build-up of highly combustible methane gas.
Several fire engines rushed to the landfill on Tuesday to try and douse the fire. At night, the landfill resembled a burning mountain and it smoldered until early morning.
March was the hottest month in India in over a century and April has been similarly scorching. Temperatures crossed 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 F) in several cities Tuesday and are forecasted to continue rising.
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