PHOTOS: Crews combat Leveda Brown transfer station fire for hours
May 20, 2026
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Early this morning, crews from Alachua County Fire Rescue and Gainesville Fire Rescue worked for several hours to fight a significant fire at the Leveda Brown Transfer Station.
The Leveda Brown Transfer Station is temporarily closed because of the fire.
The fire was eventually controlled.
What’s that building and floors used for, sorting batteries?
Is there silver in those batteries?
Silver brings $75/oz that can be used to reduce our utility bills…
All those aluminum & soda cans can bring money 💰 that can be applied to lowering our utility bills… wonder how many tons and $ that is…the math is easy if you have the numbers…
Garbage is big money and we pay $25 to $50 a month to haul our valuable recycling ♻️ commodities away…they should be paying us for our recyclables…
… crude oil is with $100 a barrel…we got an oil well with all that plastic that can run the RTS 🚍 or the fuel for the diesel trucks 🛻 to bring trees to the biomsss plant.
Garbage is big business!
What a mess of a fire.
God bless the firefighters. I know it’s what they do. But wow…what a job.
Maybe it’s fuel like paper or plastic that can be used as fuel in the biomass plant…
the utility authority & Bilarski should upgrade the biomsss plant so it can be multi-fuel.
2lbs of plastic equals one quart of oil which can be turned into diesel …
Other GRU generators are multi/fuel and can burn coal, natural gas, and diesel too!.
Birkarski should talk about it when he prepares his master plan for the utility…
is our electrical utility hardened enough to survive a Carrington event?
Didn’t they recently stop picking up electronics curbside? This will probably continue to happen because people will just throw them in the trash instead of driving out to the transfer station to properly dispose of them. They may want to reconsider the recent change.
I see what they do…I’m lucky they empty my big black can weekly at $50/mo…
They ought to have trucks with grappling hooks to clean up piles by the street…
That’s how Miami did it when i was a kid..they also came into to the back yards to empty the cans..
That was the 60’d & 70’s…
The rural collection centers will take them from you too along with a lot of other things like paint and oil.
Anything like mercury I would take to the transfer station’s house hold hazardous waste. That five pound can of Vietnam War survival ration sardines from 1965 also qualifies.
I wouldn’t know what to do without them. They provide an excellent service.
Well, there goes a few million dollars that we don’t have. Guess the road fund is getting slashed again, because heaven forbid we ever stop spending millions of dollars on homeless criminals.
The city should have gone to a WTE waste to energy power production. Burning trash for power seems like a great idea, much better than biomass.
thats not even the hazardous waste area yall