“It was bad. It was extremely bad,” one resident said when testifying in court about the smoke and ash that choked her neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s before the City of Miami closed its Old Smokey incinerator on Jefferson Street.
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Old Smokey Gears up for Class Action Hearing
As lawyers seek to have the Old Smokey lawsuit certified as a class action, West Grove community leaders want more residents to be tested for medical conditions.
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