“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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Kingsway Property Sues City over Toxic Contamination
The West Grove property owner says the City of Miami should be held accountable for years of neighborhood contamination spread by the city’s former Old Smokey trash incinerator and its Fire Training Rescue Center.
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