You’re fired!

An alert neighbor called sheriff’s deputies after seeing a Bellingham roofing company truck dumping trash at the end of Deer Road, and got the mess cleaned up the next day.

“I was home for lunch and heard this crashing sound and this truck drives by lowering his bed and his eyes got all round when he saw me in the window,” the Moose Trail resident said. Sheriff’s deputy Rich Emmons said they contacted Top-Side Roofing following information the neighbor had seen on the side of the truck and the company agreed to clean up the mess. “As far as the sheriff’s office is concerned it’s done,” he said, adding he understood the company would be terminating the employee responsible and no charges were expected.

Emmons also congratulated the neighbor who reported the dumping, and encouraged anyone who witnesses illegal dumping, even if it’s just a bag tossed out a car window, to report it. “If people see it happening get us license plates or information and we can address it,” he said.

Topside Roofing owner Bill York said the employee who had dumped the roofing material had acted on his own, intending to “come back for it,” and had been fired. “We got another guy up there the next day to take care of it,” he said. “We dealt with it.”

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