STARTING AROUND 7:15 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING, calls started coming into the Nassau County dispatch center on New York’s Long Island about a burning odor.  Described variously as smelling like burning rubber or plastic, local FD’s were dispatched to investigate, but none of them found anything.

A spokesman for the Dept. of Environmental Conservation said that yesterday’s weather conditions were right for trapping smoke and carrying it.

As the day went on, the calls continued in a pattern moving eastward across the island.  After a conversation with the FDNY dispatch center, they learned that similar reports were coming from Queens Borough.

Tracking back, they now think that it possibly was originating in Jersey City, New Jersey, where a 2-alarm house fire was producing heavy amounts of smoke.  The National Weather Service compounded the puzzle by saying that it might have been coming from a fire at a refinery in Delaware.

Newsday has the STORY.

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