Hundreds of piles of tires -- totalling millions of tires -- have been slowly disappearing as Virginia officials undertake a state-wide cleanup effort. The cleanup started in 1993, and there are now about 130 piles remaining, containing some two million tires.

Heaped tires pose an environmental hazard and can negatively impact area homeowners. The tires can harbor disease-carrying mosquitoes and are also highly flammable. (In the 1980s, a tire fire in Frederick County burned for nine months and became a 17-year Superfund site.)

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