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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Josh Siegel’s biggest fear is that a resident of one of the Lehigh Valley’s major cities will throw a battery in the trash.
After that trash gets picked up from the curb by sanitation workers, Siegel said, the battery ends up in a garbage truck, where it could burst into flames.
“And now that garbage truck is on fire in the middle of a densely-packed, crowded street, and all of a sudden cars are on fire, houses on fire,” said state Rep. Josh Siegel, D-Lehigh.
“I’m trying to prevent the loss of life and the loss of property and basically make sure that we are being as proactive as possible and making sure that we don’t have those incidents here in the Lehigh Valley.”
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