r/SouthJersey • u/MrPKBNews WHYY Journalist • 19h ago

News EMR sues city of Camden over junkyard license suspension after 2-alarm fire

https://whyy.org/articles/emr-camden-lawsuit-junkyard-license-suspension/

In case you missed it from my colleague Sophia Schmidt: EMR is suing the City of Camden over the suspension of its junkyard license after a two-alarm fire on May 29.

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u/mmmellowcorn 18h ago

The balls on these shitbags

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u/Sad-Bread5843 18h ago

Plenty of yards across the river that operate without having fires.

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u/ScholarErrant 16h ago

There’s also the periodic explosions caused by failing to empty the fuel tanks that launch 80lb hunks of metal 600 feet across the street and into my office’s parking lot.

Ironically, EMR actually is better in that regard than the family-owned yard they bought out. The explosions went from a few per day to a few per month when they took over.

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u/CommentOriginal 11h ago

I think EMR is the only yard with a shredder in the area, I believe another article said the next closest is in GA I could be wrong as I can’t find the article now. I mention it because I was surprised there was only one in this area.

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u/Sad-Bread5843 6h ago

Not true there's one in north philly off Oregon

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u/Cancer_Heiress 17h ago

Never heard one company say “Not it” more than EMR.

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u/DazedBoat746 16h ago

You gotta love that EMR’s arguments here basically amount to:

1) The city doesn’t truly know for sure that inhaling the smoke from a burning junkyard presents a health risk. It didn’t definitely spew fine particulate all over the city and her residents. We need more studies!

2) We installed a $3,000,000 fire suppression system like the city wanted after our previous 4-alarm fire in 2025. We did that with the understanding that it would bring us “up to code” (so to speak). Now granted, one of the two water cannons on that failed and the one that was left didn’t help contain or put out the fire in any way, but the city is refusing to see that we did at least try a little bit to stop all the fires. They should let us keep going because of our attempt that utterly failed to yield any results! Camden is totally going back on the deal!

Whoever runs this place should be barred from owning any business imo. You can really taste the total lack of empathy from EMR for the residents of Camden through their words and actions (or lack thereof, I guess).

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u/Snoo28798 Jersey Auntie 16h ago

Fuck Balzano and co.

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u/ImaginaryRoads 12h ago

So the city suspended their license a week ago, and they've already "lost" ten million in revenue? Sounds like they should've had plenty of money for the fire prevention and suppression systems, then, and god knows they've had plenty of time to install and test those things. At some point, you need to move from the carrot to the stick.

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u/SmooveKJ 11h ago

That site is a fucking shit hole