(Richmond, IN)--The fire that broke out Tuesday turned the fears of some city officials into reality.  Back in 2019, Richmond’s Unsafe Building Commission issued a series of orders to clean out the buildings on North West F, which had been stuffed to the gills with plastic.  At that point, there were more than 12 million tons of plastic in one of the buildings.  There were efforts to remove it, but those efforts stalled and the building’s owner essentially walked away – leaving the buildings under control of local government.  And, four years later, the plastic remained inside.  Here’s how Fire Chief Tim Brown described one of the buildings at the scene Tuesday:  "It's floor to ceiling, wall to wall with plastic.  All of the semis and all of the access ways around the building are full of plastic."  At the time in 2019 that the owner was ordered to remove the plastic, he claimed that he had nowhere to put it.